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View synonyms for lay open

lay open



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Idioms and Phrases

Expose; also, make vulnerable to. For example, The audit laid open some suspicious dealings , or She had not laid herself open to any charge of wrongdoing . The first usage dates from the mid-1500s, the second from the mid-1800s. Also see leave open .
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Example Sentences

The cop lay open-eyed with a grievous head wound as Johnson again checked for a pulse.

Large cardboard boxes of Kleenex, each with 36 tissue boxes, lay open for people to take.

Edna seated herself at the piano, and softly picked out with one hand the bars of a piece of music which lay open before her.

Several persons were immediately employed to clear away the weeds and lay open the spot.

No corner of his being but lay open to the great Consolatrix.

She put the envelope into his hand as it lay open, palm upwards, on his knee.

A large hall came next, which lay open, without doors, to the square outside.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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