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19,295 words · meanings, pronunciation and origins · ranked by use

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  • let off steamphraseB2To release built-up energy or anger harmlessly.
  • let onphraseC1To tell a secret you meant to keep.
  • let outphraseB22 meaningsTo make a garment wider or looser.
  • let sleeping dogs liephraseC1To leave an old problem alone rather than stir it up again.
  • let the cat out of the bagphraseC1To reveal a secret by mistake.
  • let your hair downphraseB2To relax completely and stop behaving formally.
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  • let's catch upphraseB2A suggestion to meet and swap news.
  • lie aheadphraseB2To be waiting in the future.
  • lie downphraseA2To move into a flat resting position.
  • lie lowphraseC1To stay out of sight until danger passes.
  • life and soul of the partyphraseB2The person who makes a gathering go with a swing.
  • life of the partyphraseB2The person who makes an occasion lively.
  • like two peas in a podphraseB2So alike that you can hardly tell them apart.
  • line dryphraseB1To dry washing outside on a rope.
  • line your pocketsphraseC1To make money dishonestly from your position.
  • live and let livephraseB2To accept others' ways and expect the same in return.
  • live hand to mouthphraseC1To have only just enough to survive on.
  • live up tophraseB2To be as good as what was promised or expected.
  • liven upphraseB2To make something more interesting or cheerful.
  • living room/ˈlɪvɪŋ ɹuːm/phraseA1The main room in a house for sitting and relaxing.
  • loath tophraseC1Very unwilling to do something.
  • lock stock and barrelphraseC1Completely, including every last part.
  • lock up/ˌlɒk ˈʌp/phraseB12 meaningsTo secure a building by locking its doors.
  • locker roomphraseB1The room where the team changes and the coach gives the big speech.
  • lodge a complaintphraseC1To make an objection through the proper channel.
  • log inphraseA2To enter your name and secret word to open your account.
  • long story shortphraseB2Skipping the details and giving the outcome.
  • long time no seephraseB1A friendly greeting to somebody you have not met for ages.
  • look a gift horse in the mouthphraseC1To find fault with something given to you freely.
  • look afterphraseB1To watch over and protect a person, animal, or thing.
  • look aroundphraseB12 meaningsTo walk through a place to see what is there.
  • look down onphraseB2To treat someone as beneath you.
  • look forphraseA2To try to find something or someone.
  • look forward tophraseB1To be happily excited about something coming.
  • look intophraseB2To investigate something in order to find out more.
  • look out forphraseB2To watch carefully in order to notice something.
  • look throughphraseB2To examine a collection of things one by one.
  • look up/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/phraseB13 meaningsTo search for information in a reference source.
  • look up tophraseB2To admire someone as your example.
  • lose sight ofphraseB2To stop being able to see something.
  • lose touchphraseB22 meaningsTo stop being in contact with somebody.
  • lose trackphraseB1To stop following something you had been following.
  • lose track of timephraseB2To be so absorbed you forget how late it is.
  • lose your bearingsphraseC1To stop knowing where you are or which way to go.
  • lose your nervephraseB2To find your courage gone at the last moment.
  • lose your temperphraseB2To stop controlling your anger.
  • lovely weatherphraseA2The classic opening remark to a stranger.
  • machine learningphraseB2Teaching computers by showing them examples instead of writing rules.
  • main coursephraseA2The biggest central dish of the meal.
  • make a beeline forphraseC1To head straight towards something without delay.
  • make a decisionphraseB1To choose what to do after considering the options.
  • make dophraseB2To manage with what little you have.
  • make ends meetphraseB2To just manage to pay for life on the money you have.
  • make intophraseB1To turn one thing into another.
  • make out/meɪk aʊt/phraseB22 meaningsTo manage to see or hear something indistinct.
  • make overphraseB2To give something a completely new look.
  • make sense ofphraseB1To find the pattern in something confusing.
  • make the bedphraseA2To pull the covers straight after sleeping.
  • make up/ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/phraseB22 meaningsTo invent something untrue.
  • make up forphraseB2To compensate for something bad you did.