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Meanings of lie fallow in English
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Usage of lie fallow in English
1
Yes, five years was a long time for anything to lie fallow.
2
One should never let any of the faculties of nature lie fallow.
3
Ah, Molly, you must let my goodness lie fallow for a while!
4
Wherever the land had the chance, it seemed to lie fallow.
5
Nothing to be made by letting that hydro-electric opportunity lie fallow.
6
He never let his taxes lapse, nor his money lie fallow.
7
I can afford to let my 'legal field' lie fallow for the summer.
8
Why should those years that might produce so much lie fallow?
9
Is it a good feeling to let life lie fallow?
10
Let humanity lie fallow, for two generations at least.
11
We don't know what fraction of the unlicensed inventions that lie fallow should remain so.
12
How long shall the piece of ground lie fallow whereon dogs or men have died?
13
Farmers were letting their lands lie fallow and their stock go untended in the fields.
14
We have powers and let them lie fallow.
15
The fields for the most part lie fallow and overgrown by weeds and thistles, never seen before.
16
Hearts lie fallow sometimes; and seeds of love swell very big in the ground, all undisturbed and unsuspected.
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Lie fallow across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common