| 1. Lost in the clouds | (confused) My psychology teacher is often lost in the clouds as she sometimes is unable to explain the questions clearly. |
| 2. Lose ground | (fail to keep position) The belief in prophecies and horoscopes is losing ground these days. |
| 3. Laugh in one’s sleeves | (to laugh secretly) The students laughed in their sleeves at the teacher’s ignorance of the subject. |
| 4. Leave no stone unturned | (to make all possible efforts) The minister assured the poor that he shall leave no stone unturned to uplift their condition. |
| 5. Leap in the dark | (to take a risk deliberately) You must not leap in the dark by entering the business without experience. |
| 6. Look sharp | (to make haste) Look sharp, the bus is moving. |
| 7. Let the cat out of the bag | (to disclose) Sunita has, at last, let the cat out of the bag, by confessing that she had stolen her brother’s money. |
| 8. Live in a fool’s paradise | (false hope) My brother is living in a fool’s paradise if he thinks that he can be a rich man without working hard. |
| 9. Lion’s share | (large part) Generally the sons as compared to daughters have a lion’s share of their mother’s affection. |
| 10. Loaves and fishes | (material benefit) Most of the ministers are more concerned with the loaves and fishes of office than the service of man. |