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

Most unhappily for itself Byzantium lay on the line of division between the eastern provinces, where Pescennius Niger had been proclaimed, and the Illyrian provinces, where Severus had assumed the imperial style.

From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick

Stafford county would be full of Nicholson's militia, and Lawrence's strong hand lay on the line of the Borders.

From Salute to Adventurers by Buchan, John

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