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law of averages
The idea that you can't win all the time or lose all the time.
The Celtics have won 10 games in a row but the law of averages will catch up with them soon.
law unto oneself
A person who does only what he wishes; a person who ignores or breaks the law when he doesn't like it.
Everybody in Germany feared Hitler because he was a law unto himself.
Mr. Brown told Johnny that he must stop trying to be a law unto himself.
law-abiding
Obeying or following the law.
Michael had been a law-abiding citizen all his life.
lay a finger on
To touch or bother, even a little. Used in negative, interrogative, and conditional sentences.
Don't you dare lay a finger on the vase!
If you so much as lay a finger on my boy, I'll call the police.
Suppose Billy fakes his brother with him; wilt the mean, tough boy down the street dare lay a finger on him?
lay about one
To hit out in all directions. Used with a reflexive object: her, him, or them.
Mrs. Franklin didn't kill the mouse, but she laid about her so hard with the broom that she scared it away.
The bandits surrounded the sheriff, but he laid about him so hard, with his gun used as a club, that they stepped back and let him escape.
lay an egg
To fail to win the interest or favor of an audience.
His joke laid an egg.
Sometimes he is a successful speaker, but sometimes he lays an egg.
lay aside
To put off until another time; interrupt an activity.
The president laid aside politics to turn to foreign affairs.
To save.
They tried to lay aside a little money each week for their vacation.
lay at one's door
To blame (something) on a person.
The failure of the plan was laid at his door.