Lap
Lap verb - To flow along or against.
Tie
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Both words in one sentence
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Emma (2009), a BBC miniseries adaptation: During her first dinner at Hartfield, Harriet Smith has to be shown by Emma where to put a kerchief (on her lap, unlike gentlemen who tie it under their neck) and also how to eat her soup delicately.
Source: Fancy Dinner -
Defictionalization: An in-universe example - the Ewok pilot Lieutenant Kettch started out as a Running Gag among the pilots in Wraith Squadron, then in Iron Fist Face claims to Zsinj that he's real and Wedge has to fly his TIE interceptor with an Ewok puppet in his lap.
Source: Comic Book / X-Wing Series
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