lay it out

"Let me just go ahead and tell my truth and lay it out on the table because y'all don't respect s**t else but raw and honesty. I was tryna be a cookie-cutter celebrity for y'all. I'm sorry that didn't work out," she said.

The reasoning behind this makes sense as they lay it out: As the coalition supporting a would-be autocrat becomes smaller and the society becomes less democratic, money collected by the government is increasingly diverted from funding public goods to the “pet projects or secret bank accounts” of the leader, to quote Smith and de Mesquita in "The Dictator’s Handbook."

"They'd take me into the back room, I'd lay it out on the floor and we would discuss a price."

Who else was going to lay it out straight?

I got to go visit my side of the family in West Virginia for Easter and I brought along the ancestral tree and to lay it out in front of my family because almost all of them came.