lay for

[lay for] {v.}, {informal} To hide and wait for in order to catch or attack; to lie in wait for.

* /The bandits laid for him along the road./

* /I knew he had the marks for the exam, so I was laying for him outside his office./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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