English idioms, proverbs, and expressions are an important part of everyday English. They come up all the time in both written and spoken English. Because idioms don’t always make sense literally, you’ll need to familiarize yourself with the meaning and usage of each idiom. That may seem like a lot of work, but learning idioms is fun, especially when you compare English idioms to the idioms in your own language.
Here’s a list of “Idioms Beginning With L” in English:
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Larger Than Life
Meaning: Conveying a sense of greatness, imposing
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Last But Not Least
Meaning: What I have just said does not reflect a ranking in importance.
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Laughter is the Best Medicine
Meaning: Laughing a lot is a very effective means of recovering from physical or mental injury
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Learn the Ropes
Meaning: Become more familiar with a job or field of endeavor; be trained
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Leave Someone in the Lurch
Meaning: Abandon someone in a difficult situation
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Lend an Ear
Meaning: Listen
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Let Bygones Be Bygones
Meaning: Agree to forget about a past conflict
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Let Bygones Be Bygones
Meaning: Agree to forget about a past conflict
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Let Off Steam
Meaning: To express anger and frustration in a way that does no damage
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Let One’s Hair Down
Meaning: To relax and enjoy themselves.
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Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Meaning: To avoid stirring up a problem; to leave things alone
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Let the Cat Out of the Bag
Meaning: Reveal a secret, usually a secret you or others are trying to keep
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Let the Genie Out of the Bottle
Meaning: Reveal something hitherto suppressed
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Letter of the Law
Meaning: The explicit meaning of a law, as opposed to the spirit of the law, the law’s general intention
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Lick One’s Wounds
Meaning: Rest after a bad defeat
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Life is A Bowl of Cherries
Meaning: Life is wonderful or very pleasant
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Light a Fire Under Someone
Meaning: Inspire someone to work very hard
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Light at the End of the Tunnel
Meaning: A sign of hope after a long period of difficulties
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Like a Kid in a Candy Store
Meaning: To be so excited about one’s surroundings that one acts in a childlike or silly way
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Like a Moth to a Flame
Meaning: Drawn to something or someone despite the dangers
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Like Father, Like Son
Meaning: Sons inherit their fathers’ traits and preferences, often even without realizing it.
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Like Shooting
Meaning: Fish in a Barrel Very easy
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Like Taking Candy from a Baby
Meaning: Very easy
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Like Two Peas in a Pod
Meaning: Bearing a strong resemblance
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Like The Cat That Got The Cream
Meaning: Looking particularly self-satisfied, often to the annoyance of others
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Lion’s Den
Meaning: Any dangerous or frightening place.
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Lion’s Share
Meaning: The largest part of something
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Live Large
Meaning: Have a luxurious lifestyle
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Living in Cloud Cuckooland
Meaning: Having unrealistic or foolish beliefs or plans.
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Living on Borrowed Time
Meaning: Following an illness or near-death experience, may people believe they have cheated death
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Living Under a Rock
Meaning: Ignorant of important events. Usually used as a question,Have you been living under a rock?
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Loaded for Bear
Meaning: Prepared for problems, well prepared for a challenge
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Loan Shark
Meaning: A predatory lender; one who makes high-interest loans to desperate people
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Lock Horns
Meaning: To lock horns is to argue, to come into conflict.
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Long Shot
Meaning: Something with little chance of success
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Look the Other Way
Meaning: Take no notice of violations of laws or rules, unofficially condone something
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Look What the Cat Dragged In
Meaning: Someone unwelcome has arrived.
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Loose Cannon
Meaning: Someone out of control; someone who speaks or acts recklessly
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Lose It
Meaning: To suddenly become unable to behave or think in a sensible way
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Lose One’s Touch
Meaning: Suffer a decline in one’s skill at doing something
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Lose Touch
Meaning: To fall out of contact
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Lose the Thread
Meaning: Be unable to follow someone’s reasoning
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Love at First Sight
Meaning: Falling in love with somebody the first time you see them
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Love Rat
Meaning: Somebody who cheats on his/her partner
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Love Someone With All of One’s Heart And Soul
Meaning: To love someone completely
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Lower the Boom
Meaning: Implement a punishment; reprimand severely
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Low-Hanging Fruit
Meaning: Easy parts of a task; solutions easy to obtain