lay on the line

v : expose to a chance of loss or damage; "We risked losing a

lot of money in this venture"; "Why risk your life?"

[syn: {risk}, {put on the line}]

slap on the side

(Also called a {sidecar}, or abbreviated "SOTS"). A type of

external expansion hardware marketed by computer manufacturers

(e.g. {Commodore} for the {Amiga} 500/1000 series and {IBM} for

the hideous failure called {IBM PCjr}). Various SOTS boxes

provided necessities such as memory, hard drive controllers,

and conventional expansion slots.

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