lay on thick

But the compromises here, which are mostly inherent in all gaming laptops, lay on thick.

I can’t even do the down portion of a single push-up, but when she can’t crack the cap on a recalcitrant bottle of tonic, I get to lay on thick the manly, the macho, the chivalrous — taking the bottle from her with a “Let me give you a hand with that, little lady.”

He was miserable too with disappointment, for he felt so mixed up with the expedition that it seemed to him as if he was in fault, and that when they returned he would have to share in the blame that Captain Glossop would, as he termed it, “lay on thick.”

Penton was much impressed with my stories of tramp days and tales of adventure on land and sea, which you may be sure my sense of the dramatic had encouraged me to lay on thick—and he, plainly, did not desire any heat in the discussion which was to follow....