Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Lay about One

(To). To strike on all sides.

“Hell they about him to-day.” —Shakespeare: Trolius and Cressida, i. 2.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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