Idioms Beginning With: 'L'

• Let the devil take the hindmost
• Let the dust settle
• Let the genie out of the bottle
• Let the grass grow round your feet
• Let your guard down
• Let your hair down
• Let's call it a day
• Letter of the law
• Level best
• Level playing field
• License to print money
• Lick someone's boots
• Lie like a rug
• Lie low
• Lie through your teeth
• Life and limb
• Life is just a bowl of cherries
• Life left in something
• Light a fire under
• Light at the end of the tunnel
• Light bulb moment
• Light on your feet
• Light years ahead
• Lightning fast
• Lightning rod
• Like a bat out of hell
• Like a beached whale
• Like a bear with a sore head
• Like a bull at a gate
• Like a bump on a log
• Like a cat on hot bricks
• Like a cat that got the cream
• Like a duck to water
• Like a fish needs a bicycle
• Like a fish out of water
• Like a hawk
• Like a headless chicken
• Like a hot knife through butter
• Like a kid in a candy store
• Like a moth to a flame
• Like a rat deserting a sinking ship
• Like a shag on a rock
• Like a ton of bricks
• Like Chinese arithmetic
• Like clockwork
• Like collecting frogs in a bucket
• Like father, like son
• Like giving a donkey strawberries
• Like green corn through the new maid
• Like it or lump it

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