Set out, Lay out

"I've got my work cut out for me." = I have a lot of hard work to do.
"I've got my work set out for me." = Someone has prepared my work assignment
"I've got my work laid out for me." = Someone has explained my work to me.

Thank you Mr Micawber.

Mister Micawber"I've got my work cut out for me." = I have a lot of hard work to do."I've got my work set out for me." = Someone has prepared my work assignment"I've got my work laid out for me." = Someone has explained my work to me.

Could, under some circumstances, "set out" have the sense of explanation and "lay out" have the sense of assignment?

I suppose so, but it does not seem to me to be the right choice; others may differ.

After some searching, I found this:

http://articles.latimes.com/1991-09-01/local/me-2378_1_worthy-program

"Now that a budget has been adopted, community groups that lobbied successfully for lesser cuts of favored programs have their

Good for you! It always make a teacher feel proud when he has managed to cause a pupil to think for himself.

http://www.learnersdictionary.com/search/lay

http://www.learnersdictionary.com/search/set

Under "lay out" and "set out", I can't seem to find the right senses for this context though.....

Try looking them up at OneLook: http://www.onelook.com/

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-08-22/local/me-961_1_united-farm-workers

"The commission will have its first-and only scheduled-California hearings this week, in Visalia. Its findings are due at the end of the next year, and will carry great weight in the ongo

The work set out for the commission = the work that the commission must do
Every man aboard has his work laid out for him = each man has a regular assignment