lay (someone or something) to rest

1. To bury someone who has died. Paul will be laid to rest on Saturday, and I plan to go to the funeral service.

2. By extension, to stop or finish discussing, thinking about, or focusing on something. OK, I think we have to agree to disagree. Let's just lay the issue to rest and stop arguing. Why are you still being so jealous? I thought we'd laid this all to rest ages ago.

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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

lay someone to rest

Euph. to bury a dead person. They laid her to rest by her mother and father, out in the old churchyard. We gather together today to lay our beloved son to rest.

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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

lay to rest

1. See lay at rest.

2. Bury someone, as in She wanted to be laid to rest beside her husband. This usage replaced the earlier go to rest. [Late 1800s]

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

lay something to rest

put something to rest

If you lay something such as fears or rumours to rest or if you put them to rest, you succeed in proving that they are not true. His speech should lay those fears to rest. I am determined to put to rest these rumours that we are in financial trouble.

lay something to rest

soothe and dispel fear, anxiety, grief, and similar unpleasant emotions.

lay somebody to ˈrest

(formal) bury somebody: He was laid to rest beside his parents.

lay something to ˈrest

stop something by showing that it is not true: The media speculation about their relationship has finally been laid to rest.

lay to rest

Bury; also, settle something with finality. In the first sense, this expression dates from the late nineteenth century, although rest in the sense of death was so used from about 1400 on. It appears in an American cowboy song, “And they laid him down to rest, with a lily on his chest.” In the second sense, it was earlier expressed as set at rest and dates from Shakespeare’s day. Charles Kingsley used the present locution in Westward Ho! (1855): “His fears, such as they were, were laid to rest.”

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The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer

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释义	lay (someone or something) to rest lay (someone or something) to rest 1. To bury someone who has died. Paul will be laid to rest on Saturday, and I plan to go to the funeral service. 2. By extension, to stop or finish discussing, thinking about, or focusing on something. OK, I think we have to agree to disagree. Let's just lay the issue to rest and stop arguing. Why are you still being so jealous? I thought we'd laid this all to rest ages ago. See also: lay, rest Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. lay someone to rest Euph. to bury a dead person. They laid her to rest by her mother and father, out in the old churchyard. We gather together today to lay our beloved son to rest. See also: lay, rest McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. lay to rest 1. See lay at rest. 2. Bury someone, as in She wanted to be laid to rest beside her husband. This usage replaced the earlier go to rest. [Late 1800s] See also: lay, rest The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. lay something to rest or put something to rest If you lay something such as fears or rumours to rest or if you put them to rest, you succeed in proving that they are not true. His speech should lay those fears to rest. I am determined to put to rest these rumours that we are in financial trouble. See also: lay, rest, something Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. lay something to rest soothe and dispel fear, anxiety, grief, and similar unpleasant emotions. See also: lay, rest, something Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary lay somebody to ˈrest (formal) bury somebody: He was laid to rest beside his parents. See also: lay, rest, somebody lay something to ˈrest stop something by showing that it is not true: The media speculation about their relationship has finally been laid to rest. See also: lay, rest, something Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary lay to rest Bury; also, settle something with finality. In the first sense, this expression dates from the late nineteenth century, although rest in the sense of death was so used from about 1400 on. It appears in an American cowboy song, “And they laid him down to rest, with a lily on his chest.” In the second sense, it was earlier expressed as set at rest and dates from Shakespeare’s day. Charles Kingsley used the present locution in Westward Ho! (1855): “His fears, such as they were, were laid to rest.” See also: lay, rest The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: lay somebody to rest lay something to rest lay to rest put (someone or something) to rest inter in inter in (something) lay away bury the hatchet bury the hatchet, to hatchet
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