Lay about One (To).
“Heʹll lay about him to-day”—Shakespeare: Trolius and Cressida, i. 2.
“Heʹll lay about him to-day”—Shakespeare: Trolius and Cressida, i. 2.
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.