60 Phrasal Verbs beginning with L Click on any phrasal verb for
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notes and quizzes. to verbally or physically attack someone or
something to joke about something in order to make it seem less
serious to start off something, like a speech or a song, in an
energetic way to keep something for the future, such as money to
officially state something like a policy, or rules, regulations,
conditions, guidelines, etc. to attack someone and repeatedly
punch and kick them If you lay into someone, you criticize them
in an angry way. If you lay someone off, you stop employing them
and tell them they no longer have a job. If you lay things out,
you spread them out so they're easy to see or easy to use. to
explain an idea or a plan clearly and in detail to relax and do
very little to cause something to happen If a period of time or
a series of events leads up to a particular event, it happens
just before it. If you left something behind, you forgot to
bring it wit