lay someone out—
1. knock a person to the ground (unconscious):
- The champion laid the contender out in the second round.
2. (coll.) exhaust or adversely affect smb.:
- I’ve had influenza and it laid me out for two very unpleasant and painful weeks.
3. (of a dead body) prepare for burial:
- Two of the women came to lay out the body.
4. (coll.) scold a person severely (also: lay someone out in lavender):
- The director laid Jim out for being late again.
put someone out—
1. cause smb. to leave a building:
- “If they don’t get out they will be put out bodily,” retorted Hart.
2. disconcert or inconvenience a person:
- Are you sure it won’t put you out if I stay to dinner?
3. cause a person to be confused or worried:
- The least thing puts him out, he is easily upset.
Note: The expression does not correlate in meaning with the phrase put someone out of the way—remove smb. from the scene; make away with a person:
- Though he had a wife already, he determined to put her out of the way, and marry his own niece Elizabeth.