lay aside

“Let’s lay aside the Facebook post we’ll use to justify our ‘rightness’ and skip the snarky meme demonizing the ‘other’ party,” she wrote in a post to her constituents.

“This court is wary that jurors from Shelby County will not be able to lay aside their opinions or impressions and render a verdict based upon the evidence presented,” Mitchell said while announcing her ruling.

“I had them all when I was young, so I had to lay aside what I wanted to do,” she said.

The result was a swift agreement among the nation’s leading banks to lay aside competitive instincts to come to First Republic’s aid.

He could lay aside speculation that negligence — a stove in the kitchen, faulty wiring — caused the fire.