lay it out for
Example Sentences
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“This is not something where you can wing it. He needs his senior people fully informed by events and options and then a referee to lay it out for him.”
From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2019
“Why take another person’s weakness or flaw and lay it out for all to see?”
From The New Yorker • May 6, 2019
“We have to lay it out for ourselves and lay it for the people and see where it leads us.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2019
The minute a moral quandary begins to take shape in the viewer’s mind, up pops Greenwood to lay it out for us, usually in the form of rhymed military slang.
From Slate • May 14, 2015
But there's no one I can think of that I know well enough to lay it out for them and try to figure a way through this.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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