IDIOMS for IELTS Part – 38

Larger Than Life: Conveying a sense of greatness, imposing.

Sentence – Chris is one of those small men who overcompensate for their lack of height with a larger than life personality.

Last But Not Least: What I have just said does not reflect a ranking in importance.

Sentence -Last but not least, he was able to maintain contact with his counts and missing through meetings at assemblies.

Laughter is the Best Medicine: Laughing a lot is a very effective means of recovering from physical or mental injury.

Sentence –After spending several hours in good company, Martha felt her depression lifting and realized that laughter is indeed the best medicine.

Learn the Ropes: Become more familiar with a job or field of endeavor; be trained.

Sentence –It took the new schoolteacher a year to learn the ropes regarding administrative and curricular matters.

Leave Someone in the Lurch: Abandon someone in a difficult situation.

Sentence –His advisers left him in the lurch when he needed them the most.

Lend an Ear: to allow yourself to behave much more freely than usual and enjoy yourself.

Sentence –If you would lend an ear for a couple of minutes you might learn something to your advantage.

Let Bygones Be Bygones: Agree to forget about a past conflict.

Sentence –Forget about the argument you two had, just let bygones be bygones and be friends again.

Let Off Steam: To express anger and frustration in a way that does no damage.

Sentence –So galactic mergers might like to get a little rowdy now and then, just to let off steam, but don’t blame them for those overfed black holes at the center of active galaxies.

Let One’s Hair Down: to allow yourself to behave much more freely than usual and enjoy yourself

Sentence –My roommate is such a gossip I find it hard to let my hair down in my own home.

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: To avoid stirring up a problem; to leave things alone.

Sentence – He will leave alone things that might cause trouble; as he would say, ” let sleeping dogs lie. “

Let the Cat Out of the Bag: Reveal a secret, usually a secret you or others are trying to keep.

Sentence –We tried to keep the party a surprise for my mother but my sister let the cat out of the bag.

Let the Genie Out of the Bottle: Reveal something hitherto suppressed.

Sentence –When I told her the secret, I let the genie out of the bottle.

Letter of the Law: The explicit meaning of a law, as opposed to the spirit of the law, the law’s general intention.

Sentence –A month afterwards the teams will be sent out to discover whether retailers are sticking to the letter of the law.

Lick One’s Wounds: Rest after a bad defeat.

Sentence –Farmers were licking their wounds after crop prices dropped by 50%.

Life is A Bowl of Cherries: something that you say that means that life is very pleasant. This phrase is often used humorously to mean the opposite.

Sentence –I got a promotion and got engaged in the span of a week! Life is just a bowl of cherries these days!