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Lie-to (To)

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To stop the progress of a vessel at sea by reducing the sails and counterbracing the yards; to cease from doing something. A nautical phrase.

We now ran plump into a fog, and were obliged to lie-to.”—Lord Dufferin.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Lie
Lie Circumstantial (The)
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Lie Quarrelsome (The)
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Lie
Lie Low (To)
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Lie to One’s Work (To)
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