lay somebody/something open to something

RISKto do something that makes it possible for other people to blame you, criticize you etc 使某人/某物受到责备[批评]

lay yourself open to something

By doing that, he laid himself open to ridicule.

他那么做招来了大家的嘲笑。

Not to have taken action would have laid the department open to charges of negligence.

要是当初这个部门没有采取行动，肯定会招来玩忽职守罪的指控。

Examples from the Corpus

lay somebody/something open to something• Not to have taken action, she said, would have laid her department open to a charge of negligence.• It is not difficult to see how this approach lays itself open to abuse and drastic criticism.• This would amount to a breach of their contract of employment and lay them open to disciplinary proceedings.• If he had said he was acting under his own authority, he would have laid himself open to ridicule.• It is not only those who dismiss the arts as self-indulgent who lay themselves open to such a charge.• Is it something you should do, or do you lay yourself open to terrible legal proceedings?• And he has laid himself wide open to the kind of criticism that will cloak him in a dark shroud of misery.• The Evangelicals have become a powerful influence in the land and this lays them open to the wooing of politicians.

→ lay somebody/something open to something at lay2(6)

词汇	lay somebody/something open to something
释义	lay somebody/something open to something lay somebody/something open to something RISKto do something that makes it possible for other people to blame you, criticize you etc 使某人/某物受到责备[批评] lay yourself open to something By doing that, he laid himself open to ridicule. 他那么做招来了大家的嘲笑。 Not to have taken action would have laid the department open to charges of negligence. 要是当初这个部门没有采取行动，肯定会招来玩忽职守罪的指控。 Examples from the Corpus lay somebody/something open to something• Not to have taken action, she said, would have laid her department open to a charge of negligence.• It is not difficult to see how this approach lays itself open to abuse and drastic criticism.• This would amount to a breach of their contract of employment and lay them open to disciplinary proceedings.• If he had said he was acting under his own authority, he would have laid himself open to ridicule.• It is not only those who dismiss the arts as self-indulgent who lay themselves open to such a charge.• Is it something you should do, or do you lay yourself open to terrible legal proceedings?• And he has laid himself wide open to the kind of criticism that will cloak him in a dark shroud of misery.• The Evangelicals have become a powerful influence in the land and this lays them open to the wooing of politicians. → lay somebody/something open to something at lay2(6)
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