lay out (an amount of money) on (someone or something)
lay out (an amount of money) on (someone or something)
To spend or invest a certain (typically large) amount of money on someone or something. The amount of money can also come before "out." With students or their parents laying out hundreds of thousands of dollars on college tuitions, many have begun to question how necessary those degrees are in the first place. I'm not keen to lay several hundred dollars out on a house we're only renting.
See also: amount, lay, of, on, out
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
lay something out on someone or something
and lay something out for someone or somethingFig. to spend an amount of money on someone or something. We laid out nearly ten thousand dollars on that car. We laid a fortune out on the children.
See also: lay, on, out
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- lay out on
- make (an amount of money) on (something)
- make money on
- for chicken feed
- for peanuts
- peanut
- bring an amount of money in
- out
- out (some amount of money)
- out an amount of money