the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)] > in order to remain inconspicuous (1)
to lay dead1947
to lay deadU.S.colloquial (esp. in Black English): to be inconspicuous through inactivity; = to lay low at low, adj.n.2phrases 3b; also, to do…