Question 1

How do native speakers pronounce "lay down the law" in English?

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In natural English speech, "lay down the law" appears in contexts such as: "And in the environment of evolutionary adaptiveness, the optimum point for that trade-off is at one place, and now we want to move that. No system is so far ahead of all the others that it can just lay down the law.". You can listen to the exact timestamped audio clip in the accompanying video.

Question 2

Where can I hear "lay down the law" used in a real sentence?

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Our pronunciation database found 1 conversational video occurrences of "lay down the law" with real-time synchronized transcripts and full surrounding sentence context.

How to pronounce “lay down the law” in English

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