12 Metaphors for laid

"Laid up" is a kind way of putting it, Collins.

Laid is the bamboo mat on rush mat square; Here shall he sleep, and, waking, say, "Divine What dreams are good?

But the lays are not the epic.

The Lay of the Lost Critic, The Plaint of the Grand Piano, are capital specimens of the author's humour, and Christmas Eve of his true pathos.

But The Lay of the Lovelorn is a clumsy and rather vulgar skit on Locksley Halla poem on which two such writers as Sir Theodore Martin and Professor Aytoun would have done well not to lay their sacrilegious hands.

Virgin gold Lay hidden thereno richer was the dross.

Laid in this copy of his works is a sad letter, in the poet's handwriting, which perhaps has never been printed.

The laying out of the fish trap was his action and the catches are his field of labour.

The laying on of hands is a sort of gift of mine; let me try by such means to ease your pain.

Lay your hand upon your heart, and answer me, am I your wedded wife?

Benjamin Lay was a man of strong understanding and of great integrity, but of warm and irritable feelings, and more particularly so when he was called forth on any occasion in which the oppressed Africans were concerned.

in the little frequented sea in which the "Rover" lay, was a cry that quickened every dull pulsation in the bosoms of her crew.

12 Metaphors for  laid