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Definition of Lay on the line
1. Verb. Expose to a chance of loss or damage. "She laid her job on the line when she told the boss that he was wrong"
Generic synonyms: Assay, Attempt, Essay, Seek, Try
Specialized synonyms: Adventure, Hazard, Jeopardize, Stake, Venture, Bell The Cat
Derivative terms: Risk, Risk
Definition of Lay on the line
1. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To state strongly, clearly, and accurately. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To risk. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lay On The Line
Literary usage of Lay on the line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"... and one of the most powerful links guarding the line of the Muscovite frontier.
It lay on the line of advance from the lake region in East Prussia, ..."
2. Fayûm Towns and Their Papyri by David George Hogarth, Joseph Grafton Milne, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt (1900)
"It was entered from the desert by the still conspicuous depression between the
mounds, which probably lay on the line of the Memphis road, and also from the ..."
3. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association by Geologists' Association (1906)
"... also of the patches on the neighbouring Eocene outliers, being probably due
to the fact that the outliers lay on the line of a slight synclinal flexure. ..."
4. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob August Riis (1890)
"Then there were no gates, and it is on record that the sewers were chosen as a
short cut habitually by residents of the court whose business lay on the line ..."
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