lay alongside

lay (someone or something) alongside (someone or something)

To place someone or something in a flat, resting position next to someone or something else. We laid the wounded soldier alongside his companion while we looked for a doctor. You can lay that log alongside the others.
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lie alongside (someone or something)

To rest or recline horizontally next to someone or something. There wasn't anywhere else for me to sleep, so I had to lie alongside my friend in the spare bed. I just lay alongside my poor old dog stroking his face as the vet put him to sleep.
See also: alongside, lie
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

lay something alongside (of something)

to place something next to something else, lengthwise. (Of is usually retained before pronouns.) Please lay the spoon alongside the knife. Find the knife and lay the spoon alongside.
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lay alongside something

[for a ship] to rest afloat next to something. The ship lay alongside a lovely island while a shore party searched for fresh water. Our ship lay alongside the narrow wooden pier.
See also: alongside, lay
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • be/have done with somebody/something
  • be in line with (someone or something)
  • better of
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • begin with
  • begin with (someone or something)
  • bird has flown, the
  • beware of
  • beware of (someone or something)
  • be rough on (someone or something)
References in classic literature
“If so be that the king of France had so much as a house to live in that would lay alongside of Paul’s, one might put up with their jaw.
Pioneers
On either side, as the path mounted, the long sweep of country broadened and expanded, sloping down on the one side through yellow forest and brown moor to the distant smoke of Lymington and the blue misty channel which lay alongside the sky-line, while to the north the woods rolled away, grove topping grove, to where in the furthest distance the white spire of Salisbury stood out hard and clear against the cloudless sky.
The White Company
Prince lay alongside still and stark; his eyes half open, the hole in his chest looking scarcely large enough to have let out all that had animated him.
Tess of the dUrbervilles A Pure Woman
The sweet sounds drew nearer, and soon the boat from which they were worked lay alongside us.
Three Men In A Boat
In good time next morning, however, we came again in sight of the detestable morass called Cairo; and stopping there to take in wood, lay alongside a barge, whose starting timbers scarcely held together.
American Notes for General Circulation
The rolls lay alongside a child's gas mask in a kitchen cupboard at Bishton Hall in Wolseley Bridge, Staffs.
Wiped out in the war
Held in a stone box, the remains of the wolf lay alongside these golden ornaments and tools.
Golden Aztec artifacts discovery yield rich trove
Lynn thought the duck that lay alongside mouli, carrots and spring onions lacked the promised crispness.
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A single red rose lay alongside her green beret, her belt and her campaign medals atop the casket, carried by her comrades As she was laid to rest in Wetheral cemetery, a seven-strong firing party fired a volley of shots and a lone bugler played the Last Post.
TEARS FOR CPL SARAH; HUBBY'S FAREWELL TO AFGHAN HEROINE Funeral held in wedding church
It is, however, the most significant bout so far for Mikkel Kessler, the 28-year-old Dane - born, ironically, on St David's Day - who brings two belts, the WBC and WBA versions, to lay alongside Calzaghe's WBO strap in this battle for ultimate supremacy at super-middleweight.
Kessler will feel fight pressure more than Joe
A symbolic collection of 52 pairs of shoes representing each victim in the region this year lay alongside pictures of the princess.
Princess remembered with other road crash victims; White doves released at memorial in city tribute
Jewelry and other objects lay alongside some of the bodies.
Sahara cemetery
Machetes, meat cleavers, axes, exotic martial arts hardware and a collection of antique letter openers lay alongside common or garden knives in the massive haul.
17,715 knives, machetes, axes, meat cleavers and martial arts weapons.. and even an anti-tank rocket launcher; LETHAL HAUL OF POLICE AMNESTY DAILY Mirror BIN THAT KNIFE AMNESTY REAL CAMPAIGNS ..REAL RESULTS
The coffin lay alongside white floral tributes spelling out "Michael" and "Temp", the nickname used by his friends.
Tears for skip blaze victim