Lay on

"Lay on" in a Sentence (12 examples)

At the conference, they laid on a wonderful buffet.

Özil has 16 assists in the Premier League and three goals; he has two more goals in the Champions League. On Monday, he took Bournemouth apart in the 2-0 win at the Emirates Stadium, setting up the first for Gabriel and scoring the second himself. Özil laid on a total of nine chances, the majority of them for Walcott.

Operator Abellio ScotRail doubled the Mon-Sat service from one train in each direction to two from May 2019 - it being something of a self-fulfilling prophecy that if you lay on trains, people might use them.

He laid on the solicitude pretty thickly.

He laid on compliments.

She was fed up him laying on the jokes, which she found insulting.

I would I could see / this taborer! He lays it on.

He's going to lay on a coat of primer before painting the wall.

Maybe somebody would see him and recognize him, maybe one of the guys would lay enough bread on him for a meal or at least subway fare.

Lay some wisdom on me, man.

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So the lad went back again to the north wind, and said that the goat wasn't worth anything, and he wasn't going to be done out of his meal, not he! "Well," said the north wind, "I have nothing else to give you but that old stick over there in the corner; but it is a good stick, and if you only say, 'Stick of mine, lay on,' it lays on, till you say, 'Stick of mine, leave off.'"

He talked to the cops and laid it on me.

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