line

Related to line: business line

line

1. A series of words, as in a conversation, poem, song, etc. He fed the reporters some line about being dedicated to the average worker, but we all know that's a lie. Our songs are really collaborative efforts, and we usually toss lines back and forth to see what fits the song best.
2. slang A line of a powdered drug, especially cocaine, meant to be inhaled through one's nose. I walked in to find them snorting lines of coke off our living room table. I started out doing a line or two in the morning to help pick me up for work, but then I slowly found myself needing to keep doing throughout the day.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

line

1. n. a story or argument; a story intended to seduce someone. (see also lines.) Don’t feed me that line. Do you think I was born yesterday?
2. and rail n. a dose of finely cut cocaine arranged in a line, ready for insufflation or snorting. Let’s you and me go do some lines, okay? The addict usually “snorts” one or two of these “rails” with some sort of a tube.

lines

n. words; conversation. (see also line.) We tossed some lines back and forth for a while and then split.
See also: line
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (one) has to draw a/the line somewhere
  • (one's) butt is on the line
  • (one's) line of country
  • (the) top of the line
  • a dead cat on the line
  • a fine line
  • a fine line between something
  • a hot line
  • a line in the sand
  • a line on (someone or something)
  • a thin line
  • a thin line between love and hate
  • all along the line
  • all along/down the line
  • all the way down the line
  • along similar lines
  • along the line
  • along the lines
  • along the lines of
  • along the lines of (something)
  • along the right lines
  • along these lines
  • along those lines
  • at the end of the line
  • be along the lines of (something)
  • be in line
  • be in line for
  • be in line for something
  • be in line with (someone or something)
  • be in the firing line
  • be in the front line
  • be in the pipeline
  • be on the line
  • be on the lines of (something)
  • be on the right lines
  • be out of line
  • below the breadline
  • blow (one's) lines
  • blow it
  • blow one’s lines
  • bottom line
  • bottom of the line
  • bright-line
  • bright-line rule
  • bring (someone or something) into line
  • bring into line
  • bring somebody/something into line
  • cash on the barrelhead
  • cash on the line
  • chat-up line
  • choose the line of least resistance
  • chow down
  • clear (one's) lines
  • close ranks
  • color inside the lines
  • color outside the lines
  • come down to the line
  • come in(to) line
  • come into line
  • come on line
  • come online
  • cross a line
  • cross the line
  • cut in line
  • dead cat on the line
  • do a line
  • do a line with (someone)
  • do a line with someone
  • don't give me that line
  • don't hand me that line
  • down the line
  • draw (the) battle lines
  • draw a line
  • draw a line between
  • draw a line between (two things)
  • draw a line in the sand
  • draw a line under (something)
  • draw a line under something
  • draw the line
  • draw the line at
  • draw the line at (something)
  • draw the line at, to
  • draw the line between and else Go to draw a line between
  • drop (one) a few lines
  • drop (one) a line
  • drop (one) a note
  • drop a line
  • drop a line and drop a few lines; drop a note
  • drop somebody a line/note
  • drop someone a line
  • end of the line
  • fall for (someone or something) hook, line, and sinker
  • fall for someone hook, line and sinker
  • fall for something hook, line and sinker
  • fall in line
  • fall in(to) line
  • fall into line
  • feed (one) a line
  • feed someone a line
  • fire a line
  • firing line
  • firing line, on the
  • fix up
  • flatline
  • fluff (one's) lines
  • fluff lines
  • get (one's) lines crossed
  • get (one's) wires crossed
  • get a line on
  • get a line on (someone or something)
  • get a line on someone
  • get in(to) line
  • get your lines/wires crossed
  • get your wires crossed
  • give (one) a line
  • give a line
  • go down the line
  • Go on
  • go online
  • hard line
  • hard lines
  • hard lines!
  • hard luck/lines
  • have a line on (someone or something)
  • hold the line
  • hold the line at (someone or something)
  • hook, line and sinker
  • hook, line, and sinker
  • hot line
  • hotline
  • in keeping
  • in line
  • in line for
  • in line for something
  • in line with (someone or something)
  • in the firing line
  • in the front line
  • in the front line(s) (of something)
  • in the line of duty
  • in the line of fire
  • in/out of line with somebody/something
  • keep (one) in line
  • keep in line
  • landline
  • lay (one's) life on the line
  • lay (something) on the line
  • lay it on the line
  • lay it on the line, to
  • lay on the line
  • lay some sweet lines on
  • lay some sweet lines on (one)
  • lay some sweet lines on someone
  • lead the line
  • least resistance, line of
  • line
  • line (one's) (own) pocket(s)
  • line (something) with (something)
  • line drive
  • line in the sand
  • line of country
  • line of fire, in the
  • line of least resistance
  • line on
  • line one’s own pocket
  • line one’s own pockets
  • line one's pockets
  • line one's pockets, to
  • line own pocket
  • line pockets
  • line up
  • line up against
  • line up along
  • line up alongside
  • line up behind
  • line up for
  • line up for (something)
  • line up in
  • line up on
  • line up with
  • line with
  • line your /somebody's pocket
  • line your pocket
  • line your pockets
  • lines
  • move the goal line
  • muff (one's) lines
  • next in line
  • offline
  • off-line
  • on line
  • on the firing line
  • on the front line(s) of (something)
  • on the line
  • on the lines of (something)
  • on the right lines
  • on/along the lines of...
  • One has to draw the line somewhere
  • online
  • out of line
  • over the line
  • overstep the mark/line
  • party line
  • party line, the
  • pick-up line
  • pitch (one) a line
  • pitch a line/story/yarn
  • put (one's) butt on the line
  • put (one's) life on the line
  • put (one's) neck on the line
  • put (oneself) on the line
  • put it on the line
  • put neck on the line
  • put some sweet lines on (one)
  • put some sweet lines on someone
  • put your neck on the line
  • put yourself on the line
  • read between the lines
  • read between the lines, to
  • run down some lines
  • shoot a line
  • sign on the dotted line
  • sign on the dotted line, to
  • somewhere along the line
  • somewhere, etc. along/down the line
  • spin (one) a line
  • stag line
  • step out of line
  • swallow (something) hook, line, and sinker
  • swallow hook, line, and sinker
  • take a firm line (on or against something)
  • take a firm line/stand
  • take a hard line
  • take the line of least resistance
  • the battle lines are drawn
  • the betting (line) is (that)
  • the bottom line
  • the dotted line
  • the end of the line
  • the end of the road
  • the end of the road/line
  • the line of least resistance
  • the party line
  • there is a fine line between
  • there is a fine line between (something) and (something else)
  • toe the line
  • toe the line/mark, to
  • toe the mark
  • tread a fine line between (something)
  • tread a thin line between (something)
  • tread/walk a fine/thin line
  • walk a fine line between (something)
  • walk a fine line between something
  • walk a thin line
  • walk on a thin line between (something) and (something else)
  • walk the line
  • What's the betting (line)
  • Who is on the line?
  • Who is on the phone?
  • Who's on the phone?
  • work (one's way) down the line
References in classic literature
The famous dactylism, therefore, of the Odyssean line was probably suggested by that of the Ileadic rather than by a desire to accommodate sound to sense.
Yet from line 260, it seems we are to consider the Wanderers as having been passed by Ulysses; this appears even more plainly from xxiii.
{101} I suppose this line to have been intercalated by the author when lines 426-446 were added.
We could see him quite plainly, gaffing the sturgeon and throwing them into the boat while his companion ran the line and cleared the hooks as he dropped them back into the water.
Regularly, every slack water, without slyness, boldly and openly in the broad day, Big Alec was to be seen running his line. And what made it particularly exasperating was the fact that every fisherman, from Benicia to Vallejo knew that he was successfully defying us.
"I'll tell you what we can do," I said, after several fruitless weeks had passed; "we can wait some slack water till Big Alec has run his line and gone ashore with the fish, and then we can go out and capture the line.
A wave of derisive laughter runs abreast of him all along the line. But how handsome he is!
In the edge of this wood, facing the open but not venturing into it, long lines of troops halted.
The colors move slowly back, the lines face about and sullenly follow, bearing their wounded; the skirmishers return, gathering up the dead.
SOCRATES: Therefore the double line, boy, has given a space, not twice, but four times as much.
SOCRATES: What line would give you a space of eight feet, as this gives one of sixteen feet;--do you see?
SOCRATES: And the space of four feet is made from this half line?
"I have just come from behind the German lines. Possibly I can help you."
"Is it more difficult than entering the British lines?" asked Tarzan.
"I have just come through the German lines and yours and passed through your camp," he replied.