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Lay it on thick.
If someone lays it on thick, they make an emotion or experience seem more important or serious than it really is.
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But the problem with all these rendezvous with rock destiny is that Real Neal doesn't know what to do with them besides contrive to put Pretend Neal at their center, let him make a fool of himself and lay on thick the gross-out humor.
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The anatomy department at her university was in a very old and echoey Victorian building; the cadavers lay on thick-lipped glass tables, ensuring the bodily fluids didn't drain away.
If you lay it on thick enough, keeping your head down, looking ill, your teacher may say, "Is everything ok?" at which point you'll be able to play it off, and say, "I don't know, I just don't feel right.
First we did molly, lay on the thick carpet touching it, ourselves, one another.
By Greg Jackson First we did molly, lay on the thick carpet touching it, ourselves, one another.
Don't lay on mystery too thick, or make things too open at the beginning.
At night, as he restlessly tossed on his daybed and I lay on my inch-thick foldout cot, the stereo played Frank Sinatra's "Songs For Only the Lonely" all the way through until, even in my sleep, I could hear the stylus arm lift off the scratchy record and the unit shut itself off with a tactile click.
To lay it on thick is forgivable.
Lay it on thick with the allergies: ka-choo!
Then begin the lament, and lay it on thick, with comparisons to candy and drugs.
At the fund-raiser, Mr. Schleifer decided to lay it on thick.
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