Idioms

lie in wait
to watch from hiding in order to attack or surprise someone
The police decided to lie in wait for the bank robbers to appear at the bank.

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  • lie low
  • lie through one's teeth
  • lie/lay down on the job
  • life of Riley
  • life of the party
  • light into (someone)
  • light into (something)
  • light out (for somewhere)
  • light up
  • like a bat out of hell
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  • a hassle
  • hell-on-wheels
  • keyed up
  • keep one's chin up
  • get off (someone's) back
  • run down (someone) or run (someone) down
  • line up (someone with someone)
  • at the top of the hour
  • learn (something) from the bottom up
  • wade into (something)


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    Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil      .. More >>
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