All lay one's hands on synonyms

verb lay one's hands on

• pick up on — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
• pin down — a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
• smoke out — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
• track down — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
• zero in on — the figure or symbol 0, which in the Arabic notation for numbers stands for the absence of quantity; cipher.