Technically, this idiom flies in the face of the basic difference between “lay” and “lie.” As any grammar book will tell you, “lay” is a transitive verb and “lie” is intransitive.

Focuses on understanding verbs, explaining their two main categories: action verbs and state of being verbs. It distinguishes between transitive and intransitive verbs based on whether they have a ...

I had to look up the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs and was enlightened to know that if you procrastinate on one project, it is intransitive, and if you procrastinate on ...