"Lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed, but don't mess up the sheets or you'll be dead," could be the lyrics to a song one of these yentas might be singing.
Coyote is soon shyly proposing to Cleo that she "lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed".
To lie (intransitive: lies, lay, has lain) means to recline; to lay (transitive: lays, laid, has laid) means to set down; to lie (intransitive: lies, lied, has lied) means to fib.
"Syrian media lies, lies, lies," he said.
"Lies, lies, lies," says the mayor.
Read those old interviews – they're lying, lying, lying.
In labored English, he said, "United States, Great Britain, Sarkozy are just lying, lying, lying.
They will lie, lie, lie, and then again they will do worse than that.
"When they say this is a dream job, they lie, lie, lie," she continues.
He wrote a blistering letter to Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, accusing the powerful literary union of "lies, lies, lies, bad manners and lies".
These are lies — lies told by innuendo, but lies all the same.
