Idioms
Life and soul
someone who brings energy and enthusiam to a social event
Light fingered
habit of stealing things
Like a shag on a rock
completely alone
Live hand to mouth
just enough money to live on and nothing extra
Lock, stock and barrel
including everything; completely
❝ We had to move our things lock, stock, and barrel to the other side of the town ❞
Look down one's nose
to be contemptuous or disdanful
❝ She looked down her nose at the neighbours ❞
Loose heart
stop believing that you can succeed
Made off
run away with
Make a beeline
to move quickly and directly towards something
Make a clean breast of it
to tell the truth about something
Make head or tail of something
to understand something
Make like a banana and split
leave a place at once in a hurry
Make off with something
to steal something
❝ Thieves disguised as policemen made off with jewellery ❞
Make the cut
equal or better a required score
Man of hour
one who is honored and appreciated by a large number of people
Milk and water
weak ideas
Mind one's p's and q's
to be careful about behaving in a proper way
Mouse potato
a person who spends too much time on computer
Muddy the waters
make a situation complicated
Not playing with a full deck
someone who lacks intelligence