lay away

réserver avec un acompte

Réserver un article avec un acompte, puis payer le reste progressivement pendant que le magasin le garde.

En anglais simple : To ask a shop to keep an item while you pay for it over time.

• Can I lay away this coat?
• We laid the sofa away until we could pay for it.
• He is laying away a bicycle for his daughter.

Comment l'utiliser : lay something away (She laid the coat away and paid a little each week.)

Synonymes : reserve

Expressions courantes : lay away something, lay something away

mettre de côté, garder en réserve

Garder quelque chose pour pouvoir l’utiliser plus tard.

En anglais simple : To keep something so that you can use it later.

• We lay away food for winter.
• She laid some money away for emergencies.
• They are laying away supplies for the long journey.

Comment l'utiliser : lay something away for something (They laid some food away for the winter.)

Synonymes : set aside, put away, save

Expressions courantes : lay away something, lay something away

enterrer, inhumer

Mettre le corps d’une personne morte dans une tombe.

En anglais simple : To put a dead person’s body in a grave.

• They laid her away beside her husband.
• The family laid him away in the village churchyard.
• She wished to be laid away near the sea.

Comment l'utiliser : lay someone away in something (They laid him away in a quiet village cemetery.)

Synonymes : bury, lay to rest, inter

Expressions courantes : lay someone away, lay away someone