set down
v. phr.— «DeMatteis, who was helmeted and traveling north, had set his bike down in what’s known as a “brake fall” stop. “I didn’t know if he was dead or alive.”» —“Motorcyclist on the hunt for his rescuer in Teqesta” by Michelle Sheldone TCPalm (Fort Pierce, Florida) Jan. 10, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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A caller who grew up in Wisconsin says his spouse, who’s from Florida, teases him for such things as pronouncing bagel like “BEG-el” and dagger as “DEG-ger.” They’re just products of his isolect, the regional variants from his particular dialect of...