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57 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 October 2007 11:49PM

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Comment author: Cynical_prof 09 November 2007 07:31:13PM 2 points [-]

Donâ€™t come the uncle over me. Do not overdo your privilege of reproving or castigating me.

Laid out in lavender means prepared for burial. The phrase has also been used to mean 'show something in the best possible light'.

Comment author: gwern 27 October 2010 08:02:21PM 1 point [-]

The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech by Irving Lewis Allen says that to lay out in lavender also means to pawn some good: http://books.google.com/books?id=j41z0yeKbeIC&pg=PA159&lpg=PA159