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L-bomban expression of love, usually one that provokes a significant change in a relationshipRate it:

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la fortune rit aux sotsFools have the best luck.Rate it:

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la nuit tous les chats sont grisAt night one may easily be mistaken; At night beauty is of no account; When candles are away, all cats are grey.Rate it:

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la pièce n'est que quelconqueThe piece (i.e. the play) is quite an ordinary one.Rate it:

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la richesse rend honnêteRich men have no faults.Rate it:

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laborare de pecuniato have pecuniary difficulties.Rate it:

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lacerare bona sua (Verr. 3. 70. 164)to squander all one's property.Rate it:

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lâcher priseTo let go one’s hold.Rate it:

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lacrimas tenere non posseto be hardly able to restrain one's tears.Rate it:

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lacrimis obortiswith tears in one's eyes.Rate it:

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laisser voir le bout de l'oreilleTo show one’s ignorance (or, true character); To show what one is driving at; To show the cloven hoof.Rate it:

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land poorIn a condition of poverty as a result of inability to meet tax payments or other financial requirements for one's land holdings.Rate it:

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landing stripA runway for aircraft, especially one which is auxiliary or temporary.Rate it:

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lap of luxuryA position or situation in which one is spoiled and indulged.Rate it:

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lapsed academicA person formerly employed as a professor or researcher in a university or other institution of higher education, especially one who no longer attempts to remain current in his or her former academic field.Rate it:

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last burst of fireA state of exertion where one gives one's all; expending all of one's remaining energy in a final effort to achieve one's goal.Rate it:

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late patere (also metaphorically vid. sect. VIII. 8)to have a wide extent.Rate it:

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laundry listHence, a long list of items, especially an exhaustive one.Rate it:

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laundry-shareAn arrangement in which owners of usually privately owned washers and dryers who wish to do others’ laundry and community users who choose to have their laundry done nearby, any time of the day, no matter where they are, use a network (such as one accessed through an app or a website) to coordinate the pickup and drop off soiled and cleaned garments, for which the user or soiled garment owner pays the washer (laundry doer) to clean for them.Rate it:

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lawyer upTo arrange in a way reflecting legal advice.Rate it:

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lawyer upTo exercise one's right to legal representation, especially on the occasion of refusing to answer law-enforcement officials' questions without the presence of such legal representation.Rate it:

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lay a finger onIf you lay a finger on my little brother, I'll have your guts for garters.Rate it:

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lay an eggThe act or performance which is substandard in one's capability. An act or performance which is substandard or below the typical level of one's usual production or output: An act, production or presentation of a noxious, negative, repulsive, boorish nature:Rate it:

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lay backTo lie down on one's back; to lie back.Rate it:

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lay oddsTo offer a bet in which one stands more to lose than the opponent; or a bet in some other way favourable to the opponent.Rate it:

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lay the pipeTo have penetrative sex with a woman.Rate it:

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lay to restTo bury one who has died.Rate it:

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le beurre et l'argent du beurreone's cake and eating it too; two mutually exclusive things, such that one can only choose one over anotherRate it:

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le bien mal acquis ne profite jamaisIll-gotten gains benefit no one; Cheats never prosper; Ill got, ill spent.Rate it:

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le chemin le plus long est souvent le plus courtThe longest way round often proves to be the shortest; A short cut may be a very long way home.Rate it:

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le fort portant le faibleOne thing with another; On an average.Rate it:

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le vin est tiré, il faut le boireYou have gone too far now to draw back; In for a penny, in for a pound.Rate it:

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leadI would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top. — Bacon.Rate it:

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lead outA race tactic, used to set up a rider for a sprint finish, in which one rider on a team will ride at a very high rate of speed with a teammate following directly behind in his slipstream thus enabling the following rider to gain speed without expending as much energy as he normally would. See drafting.Rate it:

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Lead You by the NoseTo have a control over someone, to be in authorityRate it:

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leading lightAn acclaimed expert, one of the foremost experts, a luminary.Rate it:

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lean and meanEfficient because of having nothing in excess of what is needed, and single-minded in one's objective.Rate it:

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lean inTo shift one's weight forward; to lean forward or towards something.Rate it:

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lean inTo proactively take charge of a situation; to be bold in exerting one's will in a situation.Rate it:

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lean intoTo accept something negative but unchangeable; to find a way to benefit from, or alleviate the harm of, risk, uncertainty and difficult situations.Rate it:

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leap to mindTo appear in one's thoughts.Rate it:

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leave for deadTo abandon a person or other living creature that is injured or otherwise incapacitated, assuming that the death of the one abandoned will soon follow.Rate it:

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leave homeTo stop living with one's parents.Rate it:

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lecto tenerito be confined to one's bed.Rate it:

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left turnAn unexpected change from the way things seemed to be going.Rate it:

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lemme goLet me be on my wayRate it:

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les absents ont toujours tortWhen absent, one is never in the right.Rate it:

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les affaires sont les affairesBusiness is business; One must be serious at work.Rate it:

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les deux armées en sont aux mainsThe two armies are in close combat, have come to close quarters.Rate it:

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les fatigues ont cassé cet hommeHardships have broken that man down.Rate it:

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