All 5 Uses
liable
in
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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- The clock hands hang at two minutes to three and she's liable to let them hang there till we rust.†
Chpt 6
- There's liable to be crackin' cement and flying steel.†
Chpt 11
- If these boys don't play it just right they're liable to finish their training up in Portland at the alky hospital.†
Chpt 16
- That's why he was up on Disturbed; whenever he wasn't lifeguarding he was liable to do something like that.†
Chpt 18 *
- I was thinking, though, that if you don't come along with us, and if there is some awful stormy calamity, we're every last one of us liable to be lost at sea, you know that?†
Chpt 25
Definitions:
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(1)
(liable as in: is legally liable) legally responsible
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(2)
(liable as in: she is liable to) likely to; or maybe going to; or subject to
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)