Usually means: Cover or conceal the truth.
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  1. lie over: Merriam-Webster
  2. lie over: Wiktionary
  3. lie over: Dictionary.com
  4. Lie Over: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  5. lie over: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lie over: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (lie over)

verb:  (intransitive) To be deferred to a future occasion.
verb:  (transitive, algebra, ring theory) Of a prime ideal q of a ring R' with subring R, to intersect with R at some other prime ideal p; q lies over p if and only if q∩R=p.

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