L
la crème de la crème
Labor's Love Lost
laconic
Lady see also
laid an egg
Lame Duck...Winging it...Swanlanes and tracks, fast
language confounded (Tower of Babel)
lantern, Irish
lapdogs custom
Lassie Has Her Day see also A Doggone Fool, A Dog's Life...Three Dog Night, Letting Our Hair Down...Hair of the Dog, and Putting On...The Lap Dog
last ditch effort
Latte
laughing all the way to the bank
lav (as in lavatory)
lavatory
Lavish...Extravagant...Buy it on Plastic see also Kicking Habits and Footing the Bill and Follow the Bouncing Bill
law, laying down the
laws, blue see also Laying Down the Law
laws, lemon see also Laying Down the Law, Blue Laws and Feeling Blue, and Attorneys, Shysters et al
lawyers, attorneys and shystersLaying Down the Law see also Blue Laws and Feeling Blue, Sweet Talk and Lemons, Attorneys, Shysters et al, and Columbus and His Potential
Laying It On see also Smoothing the Way
le grand fromage (big cheese)Lead Us Not To Temptation
lead-pipe cinch
league see also Major and Bush Leagues, Baseball, Playing Hardball and Making Sacrifices, and Everything's Coming Up Roses
leap of faith
leap, quantum
Learn the Ropes...The Bitter Endlearning, love of (academics)see also Instilling...Constructive...Instructionleather, harsh (chagrin)
leaves of books?
left (associations with evil)Left, Right Wings...Middle of the Road
left-handed compliment (insult)leg, break a
legalese (gobbledygook)
legs or limbs (obscenities)
lemon
lemon laws
les jeux sont fait
Let George Do It...By George!let it fly see also Flying Colors
Let them Eat, Piece of Cake, Cakewalks
lethal injection (capital punishment)
letting it all hang out
Letting Our Hair Down...Hair of the Dog see also A Dog's Life...Three Dog Night, A Doggone Fool, Lassie has Her Day,Putting On...The Lap Dog, and Raining Pet Peeves
Letting the chips fall (fly) where they may
Lexington, battle of (marching tune)liabilities
libertine
lid, blowing your
liege
lies, white
ligament
limbs or legs (obscenities)
Lincoln's beard
line, out of (delirious)
lined up like ducks
liniment and politeness
lining pockets see also Blazers, Cardigans, Bluchers et allip service, paying
lip, giving
liquor, too much of
Little Currency see also Buck...Passing the Buck
little dab will do ya, a (Brylcreem flattery?) see also Laying It On
little hair of the dog
liver of a chicken
lizard, lounge
Lizzie Borden (ax to grind)see also A Battle-Ax to Grindand Grinding It Out
lock (sure thing)
l'oeuf and love
Lone Ranger and Tonto
long arm of the law see also Blue Laws and Feeling Blue, Sweet Talk and Lemons, Attorneys, Shysters et al, and Columbus and His Potential
long story short, make
loo, the
loose lips sink ships
loose screws
Lord
Lord Haw Haw (turncoat)
Lord of Villemain, Jacques NicotLothario
Lounge lizard and Friends, TheLove
love and freedom
love, head over heels in
lovers (Lothario, Casanova, Don Juan, Romeo)
low brow
Lowe, Edwin (bingo inventor)
lunch
lynch, eponymous origins of
