lay on the line
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"Catch-22 has made me feel differently about what I lay on the line and what I do with my money too," Nichols says.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Catch-22 has made me feel differently about what I lay on the line and what I do with my money too," Nichols says.
From Time Magazine Archive
The policy of the Corning Foundation is to demand something very definite in return for the money they lay on the line.
From Cubs of the Wolf by Jones, Raymond F.
These he kindly promised to me, even authorizing me to get them at the place where he had deposited them, and which lay on the line of my daily tramp to the ruins.
From Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I by Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse
Patna lay on the line of Law's retreat, and, as we shall see, he was joined by the second and other subordinate officers of that Factory.
From Three Frenchmen in Bengal The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 by Hill, S. C. (Samuel Charles)
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