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"laid on the table" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a physical object being placed on a table, or to an idea or discussion being presented or put forward. For example: The business plan was laid on the table for discussion.
Idiom
Lay on the table.
This phrase occurs in the official records of meetings or deliberations of various government bodies.
Exact(30)
By tracking which dominoes are laid on the table and which ones other players can and cannot match, a good player can roughly deduce the hands held by others.
A Rizla, laid on the table, slowly filled.
Once laid on the table, they cannot so easily be snatched back.
"People have laid on the table somewhere near the Benjamin Franklin Parkway".
We've got to wait till things unfold and see where everyone's cards are laid on the table".
Long-held secrets are revealed; resentments played out; and, yes, the cards are laid on the table.
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We'll be laying on the table what we need".
"He was laying on the table; he had a lot of ice on him," Rivers said.
"You can't leave that kind of money laying on the table," Steve Jarding, a Democratic strategist who has worked for Mr. Kerry, said earlier this week.
Suddenly, I spied our Visa bill laying on the table.
I remember, at one point, being at my dad's and there were some Yardies there and there were four guns just laying on the table.
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