| "___ la poupée," Offenbach song | 44 |
| "___ la sera," Puccini duet | 37 |
| "___ la Vida or Death and All His Friends" (Coldplay album) | 69 |
| "___ la Vida" (2008 Coldplay song) | 44 |
| "___ la vie!" | 23 |
| "___ la vie" | 22 |
| "___ la vie" ("You're S.O.L., pal") | 59 |
| "___ la vista!" | 25 |
| "___ la vista" | 24 |
| "___ la vista, baby!" | 31 |
| "___ la vista, baby" | 30 |
| "___ labbro . . . ": Verdi aria | 41 |
| "___ labor and to wait": Longfellow | 45 |
| "___ labour's bath," Macbeth's phrase for sleep | 65 |
| "___ Lady of Guadalupe" | 33 |
| "___ Lady of Solitude" Leonard Cohen | 46 |
| "___ Lady" | 20 |
| "___ Lady" (1971 hit song) | 36 |
| "___ Lady" (1971 hit) | 31 |
| "___ Lady" (2004 TBS cross-dressing reality show) | 59 |
| "___ Lady" (Tom Jones song) | 37 |
| "___ Lady": Cather | 28 |
| "___ Lady," T. N. Page short story | 44 |
| "___ Lake" | 20 |
| "___ Lake" ballet | 27 |
| "___ Lake," Doctorow novel | 36 |
| "___ Lama Ding Dong" | 30 |
| "___ Lama Ding Dong" (1961 hit) | 41 |
| "___ Lama Ding Dong" (1961 nonsense hit) | 50 |
| "___ Lama Ding Dong," 1961 hit for the Edsels | 55 |
| "___ Land Is Your Land" | 33 |
| "___ land of the free . . . " | 39 |
| "___ Lane," Beatles song | 34 |
| "___ Lane," Beatles song: 1967 | 40 |
| "___ Lang Syne" | 25 |
| "___ Lap" (1983 film) | 31 |
| "___ Las Vegas!" | 26 |
| "___ Las Vegas" | 25 |
| "___ Las Vegas" (1964 Elvis movie) | 44 |
| "___ Las Vegas" (classic Elvis flick) | 47 |
| "___ Las Vegas" (Presley film) | 40 |
| "___ Las Vegas" (Presley flick) | 41 |
| "___ Last Case" | 25 |
| "___ Last Love," 1938 song | 36 |
| "___ Last Night." 1986 film | 37 |
| "___ last!" (finally) | 31 |
| "___ late than never" | 31 |
| "___ later than you think" | 36 |
| "___ Latin from . . . " | 33 |
| "___ Latin from Manhattan" | 36 |
| "___ laugh!" | 22 |
| "___ laugh": Pinero | 29 |
| "___ Laugh-In"? | 25 |
| "___ laughing now?" | 29 |
| "___ Laughing," 1967 film | 35 |
| "___ Laughing," Cobb book | 35 |
| "___ Laughing," Irvin S. Cobb's autobiography | 59 |
| "___ laughs at probabilities": Bulwer-Lytton | 54 |
| "___ Laurie" | 22 |
| "___ law," in electricity | 35 |
| "___ Lawyer," Olsen-Johnson film | 42 |
| "___ lawyers never die, they just lose their appeal" | 62 |
| "___ Lay Dying" | 25 |
| "___ Lay Dying" (Faulkner novel) | 42 |
| "___ Lay Dying": Faulkner | 35 |
| "___ Lay Dying," Faulkner novel | 41 |
| "___ lay me . . . " | 29 |
| "___ lay me ..." | 26 |
| "___ lay me down . . . " | 34 |
| "___ lay me down ..." | 31 |
| "___ Lay Me Down" (1995 hit) | 38 |
| "___ lay me down..." | 30 |
| "___ lay me..." | 25 |
| "___ Lazuli," Yeats poem | 34 |
| "___ lazy river . . . " | 33 |
| "___ lazy river ..." (Bobby Darin lyric) | 50 |
| "___ Lazy River" | 26 |
| "___ Lazy River" (old song) | 37 |
| "___ là ?" (Who goes there?) | 40 |
| "___ le feste" ("Rigoletto" aria) | 53 |
| "___ le Moko" | 23 |
| "___ Le Moko" (1937 Duvivier drama) | 45 |
| "___ Le Moko" (1937 movie) | 36 |
| "___ le Moko," Gabin film | 35 |
| "___ le Monde" (final Pixies studio album) | 52 |
| "___ le roi!" | 23 |
| "___ le roi!" (Bastille cry) | 38 |
| "___ le roi!" (French Revolution cry) | 47 |
| "___ le tyran!" | 25 |
| "___ leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering": Yoda | 82 |
| "___ leads to London": Masefield | 42 |
| "___ Leaf Rag" (Joplin tune) | 38 |
| "___ Leaf Rag" (Scott Joplin) | 39 |
| "___ Leaf," May-Matthau film | 38 |
| "___ league onward" | 29 |
| "___ Lear" | 20 |
| "___ learn him or kill him": Twain | 44 |
| "___ learned ... " | 28 |
| "___ Leave You?": 1971 song | 37 |
| "___ Leaves," 1956 film | 33 |