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Meaning: (idiomatic,transitive)To statestrongly,clearly, andaccurately.1957June 10, “The Budget: Remember Guam!”, inTime:Martin presented the list to the 30-member House Republican Policy Committee,laidthe factson the linein cold political terms.1970-1975,Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors),We Both Laughed In PleasureThe way I felt about my approach to him—I just wanted tolayiton the line, get an answer & split, I was so nervous. I didn't have any confidence to flirt my way into getting him to my place. Joyce said I can't just take the male role like that.2011June 10, David Colman, “Crosses That Bear the Past”, inNew York Times, retrieved30 July 2011:Finally, though, helaiditon the line. “I said to her, ‘You gotta tell me if you still love me.’”; (idiomatic,transitive)Torisk.1959July 5, “National Affairs: The Democratic Governors in 1960”, inTime:California's Edmund Gerald Brown, 54,laidhis political prestigeon the linewith a sheaf of legislative proposals.2011March 13, Oliver Thomas, “America's churches can change the world”, inUSA Today, retrieved30 July 2011:It was King and his network of Christian and Jewish clergy wholaidtheir jobs and, in some cases, their liveson the lineuntil my fellow Southerners were too ashamed and embarrassed to continue their wickedness.
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