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lay claim to



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Idioms and Phrases

Assert one's right to or ownership of, as in “What claim lays she to thee?†(Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors , 3:2). [Late 1500s] Also see stake a claim .
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They also generally had no income of their own, because their parents lay claim to any wages they earned for work.

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The reality is that while most modern presidents can lay claim to significant policy successes, most of those initiatives don’t end up being the most significant parts of history’s narrative about them.

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Only the incoming commander in chief can lay claim to being a grand master of the performative arts.

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Another Daily News story in 1979 addressed the contracts, yet still the Dodgers made no effort to lay claim to them.

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This narrative continues to weigh on First Nation tribes’ ability to lay claim to land rights in Canadian courts.

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