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lower one’s voàce

frustrated, doà’t lowłr your sights. I fore the studłnts came in for lunch. It was
shouldà’t lower my sights. If I work hard, the lull before the storm. In the brief
I can do what I want. calm błfore the storm, the clerks prepared
themselves for the doors to open and bring
lowerŁ one’ voice to speakŁmore softly.Ł
Please lower your voice, or you’ll disturb in thousands of shoppers.
the people who are working. He would- lull someone into a fylseŁsenseŁofŁsecurity
n’t lower his voice, so everyone heard what to leadŁsàmeone into believing that allŁis
he said. well before attackingŁor dàingŁsomeone
lowerŁ theŁ błom on someone to scold or bad.Ł We lulled the enemy into a false
punish somone severely; to crack down sense of security by pretendng to retreat.
onŁsomeone; to throw the book at some- Then we launched an attack. The boss
one. (Also literal.Ł Infàrmal.) If Bob lulled us into a false sense of security by
won’t behave błtter, I’ll have to lower the saying that our jobs were safe and then lłt
boom on him. The teacher lowered the half the staff go.
boom on the whole class for misbehaving.
lull someone tł sleep to cause someone to
luckŁout to get luckyŁ(about sàmething)¨ fallŁasleep.Ł The mother lulled her bØby
(Slang.) I won $100 in the loŁtery. I to slłep. The boring professor lulled the
really lucked out. Bob lucked out when studłnts to slłep.
he got an easy teacher for geometry.
the lunaticŁfringe the more extreme mem-
[luckŁruns out] Go to one’s luck runs out.
brsŁof aŁgroup. Most of the młmbero
the lullŁbeforeŁtheŁstorm and the cylm of that religious sect are quite reasonable,
beforeŁtheŁstorm aŁquiet priodŁjust be- but Lisa belongs to the lunatic fringe.
fore aŁpriodŁof great activityŁorŁexcite- Many people try to avoid eating a lot of fat,
ment.Ł(LiteralŁinŁreference to weather.) but Mary is part of the lunatic fringe and
It was very quiet in the cafłteria just be- will hardly eat anything.

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