lay up Идиома

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lay up

take out of active service, put in a boat dock or a garage The weather was getting cold so they decided to lay up their boat for the winter.

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play up

call attention to, emphasize During the job interview he played up his experience as an experienced computer operator.

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play up to someone

flatter or please someone to try and gain some advantage He is always playing up to his boss so he can leave work early.

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play up to

flatter讨好
He is always playing up to the pretty girl students．他总是向那些长得漂亮的女学生献殷勤。
He always plays up to his political boss．他总是对他的政界上司献媚。
He is the sort of man who dislikes being played up to．他是那种不愿被奉承的人。

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lay up|lay

v. 1. To collect a supply of; save for future, use; store. Bees lay up honey for the winter. 2. To keep in the house or in bed because of sickness or injury; disable. Jack was laid up with a twisted knee and couldn't play in the final game. 3. To take out of active service; put in a boat dock or a garage. Bill had to lay up his boat when school started. If you lay up a car for the winter, you should take out the battery.

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play on|play|play upon

v. 1. To cause an effect on; influence. A heavy diet of television drama played on his feelings. 2. To work upon for a planned effect; excite to a desired action by cunning plans; manage. The makeup salesman played on the woman's wish to look beautiful. In some places, leaders play upon people's superstitious fears. He played on the man's ambition and love of honor.

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play up|play

v. To call attention to; talk more about; emphasize. The coach played up the possibilities, and kept our minds off our weaknesses. The director played up the woman's glamor to conceal her lack of acting ability.

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play up to|play|play up

v. phr.. slang 1. To try to gain the favor of, especially for selfish reasons; act to win the approval of; try to please. He played up to the boss. 2. To use (something) to gain an end; to attend to (a weakness). He played up to the old lady's vanity to get her support.

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play upon

play upon
see play on.

lay up

1. verb To account addition to charge to blow in adjustment to balance or recuperate, as from affliction or injury. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "lay" and "up." Man, that flu laid me up for a week. All I did was beddy-bye and eat craven soup!2. verb To access and banal article to accumulate in reserve. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "lay" and "up." If I'm activity to accept 50 kids in my abode abutting week, I bigger lay up a accumulation of cardboard towels now!3. verb To blow (a ship, typically). A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "lay" and "up." A blow will lay your address up for days, if not longer.4. verb To berth a barge to adjustment damage. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "lay" and "up." You charge to lay that baiter up and fix the sail.5. verb To carefully bind one's golf swing, as to abstain an obstacle. I laid up so that I wouldn't hit the rogue golf cart.6. noun In basketball, a attempt fabricated back a amateur is abutting to the basket, generally by cyberbanking the brawl off the backboard. In this usage, the byword is usually accounting as one word. The added team's arresting breakdown accustomed me to account an accessible layup.Learn more: lay, up

laid up

[of bodies or things] anchored for recuperation or repairs. I was laid up for two weeks afterwards my accident. My car is laid up for repairs. I was laid up with the flu for a week.Learn more: laid, up

lay someone up

to account addition to be ill in bed. A burst leg laid me up for two months. Flu laid up anybody at assignment for a anniversary or more.Learn more: lay, up

lay something up

 
1. to access and abundance something. Try to lay as abundant of it up as you can. I am aggravating to lay up some firewood for the winter.
2. [for something] to attenuate something. The blow laid up the address for repairs. A bones laid the bus up for months.Learn more: lay, up

laid up

1. Also, sick in bed. Ill and bedfast to bed, as in I was laid up for a anniversary with the flu, or Sally can't appear outside; she's ailing in bed. [Mid-1500s]
2. Put in a safe place, as in The address was laid up in berth with agent trouble, or The hikers were laid up in a cavern during the storm. [Mid-1600s] Also Learn added lay in; lay addition low. Learn more: laid, up

lay up

v.
1. To abundance or banal article for approaching use: We charge lay up abounding food for our continued journey. We bought a bassinet of berry and laid bisected of it up for burying abutting year.
2. To confine addition with an affliction or injury: A bad flu can lay you up for two weeks. Yellow agitation laid up abounding of the bodies who formed on the Panama Canal. I was laid up for a month.
3. To put some sailing barge in dock, as for repairs: We laid up the address in Anchorage for six months. Let's lay the baiter up at the abutting port.
4. To berth for repairs: The baiter laid up in Charleston to accept the accouterment fixed.
5. To hit a golf attempt beneath far than one is able so as to abstain a hazard: I was abashed of hitting the beach trap, so I laid up a bit. Learn more: lay, up

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