lay down one's life
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]lay down one's life (third-person singular simple present lays down one's life, present participle laying down one's life, simple past and past participle laid down one's life)
- (literary) To give one's life, to die. [with for ‘someone’]
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 142:
- Gold was there, and get at it they would, and at any cost. Many of our fellow-passengers suffered a rude awakening, and more than one man laid down his life in the quest for gold that had taken so fierce a hold upon him.
References
[edit]- “lay down one’s life”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “lay down your life”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “lay down your life for sth”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “lay down your life” (US) / “lay down your life” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “lay down your life”, in Collins English Dictionary.