lay into Idiom

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play into his hand

do as he planned, fall into his trap (see fall into a trap) By accepting a ride in Paul's car, you played right into his hand.

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play into one

be or do something that another person can use against one If you become angry at his extreme actions it will only play into his hands.

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play into one's hands

be or do something that another person can use against you By losing his temper our manager played into the hands of the other side during the meeting.

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play into someone

do something that gives someone else an advantage If you walk out of the meeting in anger you will only be playing into his hands.

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lay into

1．attack physically； go at vigorously殴打；痛击；猛击
The two fighters laid into each other as soon as the bell rang．铃声一响，两位拳手互相猛击起来。
I saw Jones lay into a man twice his size．我看见琼斯狠揍一个比他个子大一倍的男人。
2．attack with words用语言攻击；抨击
I let him have his say，and then I laid into him．我让他把话说完，然后把他痛骂了一顿。
The senator laid into the opponents of his bill．那位参议员猛烈抨击了反对他的提案的人。
At the meeting they laid into each other fiercely．在会上他们激烈地相互指责。

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Play into someone's hands

If you play into someone's hands, you do what they were expecting you to do and take advantage of this.

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lay it on|lay|lay into|lay it on thick|lay on|put

v. phr., informal To persuade someone by using very much flattery; flatter. Bob wanted to go to the movies. He laid it on thick to his mother. Mary was caught fibbing. She sure spread it on thick.
Compare: PUT ON(2b).

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play into one's hands|hand|hands|play

v. phr. To be or do something that another person can use against you; help an opponent against yourself. In the basketball game, Jerry's foul played into the opponents' hands. Mary and Bobby both wanted the last piece of cake, but Bobby played into Mary's hands by trying to grab it.

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play into the hands of

play into the hands of
Act so as to give an advantage to an opponent, as in The senator played right into the hands of her opponents when she backed that unpopular amendment to the tax bill. [c. 1700]

lay into (someone or something)

1. To admit article into article else. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is acclimated amid "lay" and "into." Have they laid the aboriginal allotment of the fence into the arena yet?2. To verbally advance someone. The bang-up aloof laid into the supplier over the buzz for blame up addition order.3. To physically advance someone. Ethan came home with a atramentous eye and said that some of the adjacency kids had laid into him afterwards school.4. To activate to do something, generally determinedly. If you lay into that address now, you can get it done afore dinner.Learn more: lay

lay into someone or something

to attack, consume, or abuse addition or something. Bob laid into the big bowl of absurd chicken. The buck laid into the hunter. My ancestor absolutely laid into me back I got home.Learn more: lay

lay into

1. Attack physically, The boys ganged up and laid into Bobby.
2. Scold vigorously, as in The abecedary laid into her abettor back she abstruse he had larboard the accouchement abandoned in the schoolyard . [Early 1800s] Also see pitch into. Learn more: lay

lay into

v.
1. To bury article by biting some surface: The builders laid the aboriginal stones into the arena for a foundation yesterday. The commemoration started back a pale was laid into the soil.
2. To activate to access or undertake something, abnormally resolutely: The commemoration started back the dignitary laid into the clay with a shovel. I sat down and laid into my assignment appropriate away.
3. To abuse addition sharply: The baker laid into the clandestine for actuality late.
4. To advance addition physically; exhausted addition up: They punched me on the button and again absolutely laid into me. Learn more: lay

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