lights

See:
  • according to (one's) own lights
  • according to own lights
  • according to your lights
  • by (one's) lights
  • gaslight
  • green light
  • guiding light
  • have (one's) name in lights
  • have your name in lights
  • hide (one's) light under a bushel
  • jump the light(s)
  • jump the lights
  • light (one's) fire
  • light (something) with (something)
  • light (up)on
  • light into (someone or something)
  • light out
  • light out for (some place)
  • light the fuse
  • light up
  • lights out
  • lights, camera, action
  • outen the lights
  • punch (one's) lights out
  • punch lights out
  • punch someone’s lights out
  • punch someone's lights out
  • put (one's) lights out
  • red light
  • run a red light
  • see (one's) name in lights
  • shoot the lights
  • shoot the lights out
  • shut the lights
  • stop the lights
  • the bright lights
  • the lights are on but no one is at home
  • the lights are on but nobody's home
  • the lights are on, but no one's home
  • the lights are on, but nobody's home
References in classic literature
SANDHEADS LIGHT -Green triple vertical marks new private landing-stage for Bay and Burma traffic only.
They went on for some distance on a level road, fairly wide, from which the green light was visible.
"As it is so," said Monk, "and we must have a light, a lantern, a torch, or something by which we may see where to set our feet, let us seek this light."
How they came to find themselves walking down a street with many lamps, corners radiant with light, and a steady succession of motor- omnibuses plying both ways along it, they could neither of them tell; nor account for the impulse which led them suddenly to select one of these wayfarers and mount to the very front seat.
I was delighted when I first discovered that a pleasant sound, which often saluted my ears, proceeded from the throats of the little winged animals who had often intercepted the light from my eyes.
In addition to the bright and circular flame, was now to be seen a fainter, though a vivid light, of an equal diameter to the other at the upper end, but which, after extending downward for many feet, gradually tapered to a point at its lower extremity.
Oh, ye only drink milk and refreshment from the light's udders!
'Good,' said the soldier; 'then in the first place help me out of this well.' The little man took him by the hand, and led him through an underground passage, but he did not forget to take the blue light with him.
In his insistent crawling toward the light, he discovered in her a nose that with a sharp nudge administered rebuke, and later, a paw, that crushed him down and rolled him over and over with swift, calculating stroke.
Macallan approached the oil-lamp, and looked by its light at the sheet of paper which the woman had given to her.
At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive some one saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer vision, -what will be his reply?
Having put her travelling-box of matches and the guide-book near the candle, in case she might be sleepless and might want to read, she blew out the light, and laid her head on the pillow.
I have my locks to curl, and my robe to prepare for the evening; therefore I must be gone, or I shall be brown as a withered leaf in this warm light." So, gathering a tiny mushroom for a parasol, she flew away; Daisy soon followed, and Violet was left alone.
Two featherless beings appeared, uninvited, at the door of the summer-house, surveyed the constitutional creepers, and said, "These must come down"--looked around at the horrid light of noonday, and said, "That must come in"--went away, thereupon, and were heard, in the distance, agreeing together, "To-morrow it shall be done."
It was a July midnight; and from out A full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring, Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven, There fell a silvery-silken veil of light, With quietude, and sultriness, and slumber, Upon the upturned faces of a thousand Roses that grew in an enchanted garden, Where no wind dared to stir, unless on tiptoe -- Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses That gave out, in return for the love-light, Their odorous souls in an ecstatic death -- Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses That smiled and died in this parterre, enchanted By thee, and by the poetry of thy presence.