lay plans
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And that was just before Hila and Wana Limar, two Afghan sisters who emigrated with their family to Germany as young children, began to lay plans for a jewelry brand called Sevar.
From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2021
When a cartoonish-ly crabby girl named Little Amy Scott hurls an unwanted goldfish from a pier, two indignant friends lay plans for a rescue mission.
From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2017
As brokers lay plans to satisfy new federal rules governing their relationships with retirement savers, one thing is becoming clear: Some clients will see their investment options diminished or face the prospect of higher fees.
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 18, 2016
They build and believe fictions out of malice, lay plans that are monuments of self-deception, respond to reality, when it is forced on them, with shocked disbelief.
From Time Magazine Archive
He thinks of after-the-war days and he endeavours to lay plans.
From Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer by MacQuarrie, Hector
