List of idioms start with L

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Idioms by alphabet

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  • Labour of love

    Meaning : Work only for love

  • Lacklustre

    Meaning : Dull

  • Laid hands on

    Meaning : Assaulted

  • Lame excuse

    Meaning : Unacceptable lies

  • Last but not least

    Meaning : An introduction phrase to let the audience know that the last person mentioned is no less important than those introduced before him/her

  • Laugh in one's sleeves

    Meaning : Laugh Stealthily

  • Laugh to scorn

    Meaning : To make fun of

  • Laughing stock

    Meaning : Reson for giggling

  • Lay a guilt trip on

    Meaning : Try to make someone feel guilty

  • Lay someone up

    Meaning : Cause to stay in bed

  • Lay something aside

    Meaning : To set something aside

  • Lay something on

    Meaning : Provide

  • Lay something up

    Meaning : To acquire and store something

  • Lead by the nose

    Meaning : To have full control

  • Lead someone on

    Meaning : To guide someone onward

  • Lead up to something

    Meaning : Prepare the way for

  • Learn something by heart

    Meaning : To memorize

  • Leave a bad taste in one's mouth

    Meaning : To create a bad feeling about something

  • Leave in the lurch

    Meaning : Part way in bad times

  • Leave no stone unturned

    Meaning : Do full efforts

  • Leave somebody holding the baby

    Meaning : If someone is left holding the baby, they are made responsible for a problem that others don't want to deal with.

  • Left no stone unturned

    Meaning : Used all available means, adopted every possible method of search

  • Lend Me Your Ear

    Meaning : To politely ask for someone's full attention

  • Lend someone a hand

    Meaning : Help someone

  • Let Bygones Be Bygones

    Meaning : To forget about a disagreement or arguement

  • Let on

    Meaning : Reveal by telling

  • Let sleeping dogs lie

    Meaning : Don't cause problems by doing something when it isn't necessary

  • Let someone down

    Meaning : Disappointment

  • Let someone out

    Meaning : Release

  • Let something off

    Meaning : Explode

  • Let the cat out of the bag

    Meaning : To reveal a secret

  • Let up

    Meaning : Stop

  • Lie in

    Meaning : Stay in bed

  • Lie in the bed you have made

    Meaning : Take the consequences of your own acts; suffer for your own misdeeds

  • Lie through one's teeth

    Meaning : To make outrageous false statements

  • Like clockwork

    Meaning : To say that someone or something goes, runs or behaves like clockwork means that everything happens exactly as expected.

  • Like a bear with a sore head

    Meaning : If someone is behaving like a bear with a sore head, they are very irritable and bad-tempered.

  • Like shooting fish in a barrel

    Meaning : Extremely easy

  • Like taking candy from a baby

    Meaning : Very easy to achieve

  • Line up

    Meaning : schedule someone for something

  • Lion's share

    Meaning : Big part

  • Live and let live

    Meaning : Don't unnecessarily make things difficult

  • Live from hand to mouth

    Meaning : Live on little money

  • Live something down

    Meaning : to overcome the shame or embarrassment of something.

  • Live up to

    Meaning : full the aspirations

  • Live up to something

    Meaning : to fulfill expectations

  • Lives by his wits

    Meaning : i.e. he has no settled means of subsistence but picks up a living by deceit or fraud

  • Loaves and fishes

    Meaning : Materialist wealth

  • Lock, stock and barrel

    Meaning : All empty

  • Look after someone / something

    Meaning : Take care of

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