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lay down one's arms

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[lay down one's arms] {v. phr.}

To cease fighting; surrender.

* /The Civil War ended when the Confederate army finally laid down its arms./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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