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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a great lay" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in informal contexts to refer to a sexual encounter that is enjoyable or satisfying.
Example: "After our date, I realized that we had a great lay, and I couldn't stop thinking about it."
Alternatives: "an amazing hookup" or "a fantastic encounter".
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By the time I was 17, I'd decided I wanted to be a great lay.
At the same time, there was an increasing, sometimes obsessive interest in sex, though he was usually funny about it: in "Madder Music," after many episodes of athletic adultery, his unfaithful narrator confesses, "She's a great lay, but she needs an editor".
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Its members -- many of them older devout Catholics who serve as eucharistic ministers or Sunday school teachers -- have tried to call for a greater lay voice in the church without alienating the church's hierarchy.
This was a great lie, of course.
It is all a great lie.
I think that's a great lie, a horrible lie.
He drove to 20 feet and had a great lie on the challenging two-tiered green.
It was like they were living a great lie, and I had to find them out".
He did this by heeding Adolf Hitler's assertion - increasingly the love-child of governments - that the great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a great lie than to a small one.
Conservative scribes and the publications that print their work pounced on the revelation, each more anxious than the next to spread the word that the Democrats and their President had been exposed in a great lie.
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