lay it out for

But we’ve got to lay it out for people.

“My father wanted to throw the past into the abyss and let it sink while I needed to dig it up and lay it out for discussion,” she writes.

Lay it out for the progressives: Take it or leave it.

“The weak points of every iron monster, schematics of every palace in every region of Alke—you name it, she can lay it out for you, no trouble at all.”

But the thieving couple in this movie conceive their plan so late in the game, and lay it out for us and for each other so quickly, that all we get is one scene of Hathaway’s character sketching a map of Harrods at the kitchen table.