10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LAY STORE BY»
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
0 The flowers and stalks of lavender were traditionally used as a preservative for
stored clothes. lay store by: see set store by at STORE. lead the blind leading the
blind: see BLIND. get the lead out move or work more quickly; hurry up: North ...
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
These expressions, dating from the early 1500s, originally meant “put the sails in
position to catch the wind,” and hence cause the vessel to move. set store by Also
, lay store by; set great store by. Regard as valuable or worthwhile, as in I don't ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
... and similar unpleasant emotions. lay something up in lavender preserve
something carefully for future use. The flowers and stalks of lavender were
traditionally used as a preservative for stored clothes. lay store by:seeset store
byatSTORE.
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Webster's New World Dictionary
3 a retail establishment where goods are offered for sale — In store set aside for
the future; in reserve — set (or put or lay) store by to value Store'front' n. a front
room on the ground floor of a building, designed for use as a retail store ...
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Chambers Pocket Dictionary
set or lay store by to value highly. [Lat inslaurare, to provide or restore] storage n
1 the act of storing or the state of being stored. 2 space used for storing things. 3
the process of storing information in a computer's memory, storage heater n a ...
Elaine Higgleton, Howard Sargeant, Anne Seaton,
1992
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The Moral Psychology of the Virtues
... need to move between the general and the particular, a need to correct our
sense of the individual situation and to try to form an overall more sound
weighting of the values we lay store by. Secondly, even should someone come to
some ...
People who lay store by such pretensions are' very soon left by it in the lurch.
Among themselves the Viennese aristocrats are alike familiar and ofl'hand, using
all kinds of nicknames, and treating one another with the most unconstrained ...
8
Star Crossed India: Let Down
by Leadership
But being a staunch believer in people's power, which meant pressure from
below to prompt social- economic change, Gandhiji was disturbed by the
tendency to lay store by administrative action from the top. And the Congress
operated from ...
People who lay store by such pretensions are very soon left by it in the lurch.
Among themselves the Viennese aristocrats are alike familiar and offhand, using
all kinds of nicknames, and treating one another with the most unconstrained ...
10
An Officer and a Lady: The World War II Letters of Lt. Col. ...
I have a little conference table in my inner office (I insisted on a wall between
myself and the rest of the office, a conference table, and a rug, simply because
people here lay store by such things). I don't know whether I have ever told you
that I ...
Betty Bandel, Sylvia J. Bugbee,
2004
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