Category · 189 phrases
A list of phrases related to the human body
- A backhanded compliment
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- A bunch of fives
- A foot in the door
- A head for business and a body for sin
- A man after my own heart
- A no-brainer
- A safe pair of hands
- A shot in the arm
- A sight for sore eyes
- A skeleton in the closet
- A sweet tooth
- A thorn in the flesh
- A word in your shell-like
- About face
- Absence makes the heart grow fonder
- Achilles' heel
- All fingers and thumbs
- All mouth and no trousers
- An albatross around one's neck
- An arm and a leg
- An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
- Ankle-biter
- Arms akimbo
- Be still, my beating heart
- Beast with two backs
- Beauty is only skin deep
- Bite the hand that feeds you
- Blood and thunder
- Blow a raspberry
- Blow your mind
- Boat race
- Bone dry
- Bone idle
- Bone up on
- Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
- Boss-eyed
- Bottle and glass
- Box your ears
- Break a leg
- Bums on seats
- Bury your head in the sand
- Butterfingers
- By the short hairs
- By the skin of your teeth
- Cat got your tongue?
- Chaps my ass
- Cheek by jowl
- Chinless wonder
- Chip on your shoulder
- Cloth ears
- Cold feet
- Cold shoulder
- Colder than a witch's tit
- Cross my heart
- Crown jewels
- Cut off your nose to spite your face
- Do my eyes deceive me
- Ear popping
- Ear-mark
- Elbow grease
- Every fiber of my being
- Eyebrow raising
- Face the music
- Faint of heart
- Fie, fih, foh, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman
- Find your feet
- Finger lickin' good
- Five finger discount
- Flesh and blood
- Flip the bird
- Foam at the mouth
- Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears
- Fruit of your loins
- Get off on the wrong foot
- Get out of one’s hair
- Get the upper hand
- Go and boil your head
- Green fingers
- Gregory Peck
- Grey matter
- Gut feeling
- Half-hearted
- Hand over fist
- Hanged, drawn and quartered
- Hard-hearted
- Have your guts for garters
- Head over heels
- Heads up
- Heads will roll
- Heart's content
- High five
- Hot on the heels
- I spy with my little eye
- I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
- If my aunty had bollocks, she'd be my uncle
- In the blink of an eye
- In the twinkling of an eye
- In your face
- Jelly belly
- Joined at the hip
- Keep a stiff upper lip
- Keep body and soul together
- Keep your chin up
- Keep your hands clean / keep your nose clean
- Keep your nose to the grindstone
- Keep your pecker up
- Kick your heels
- Knee-jerk reaction
- Knuckle down
- Knuckle under
- Lantern-jawed
- Let your hair down
- Light on one's feet
- Like pulling teeth
- Loaf of bread
- Long in the tooth
- Lose face - Save face
- Make a clean breast of it
- Make a rod for your own back
- Makes your hair stand on end
- Mince pies
- Mind's ear
- Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
- My heart is full
- My mind's eye
- Neck of the woods
- Nerves of steel
- North and south
- Nosy parker
- Off with his head
- One hand washes the other
- Out of sight, out of mind
- Patootie
- Plates of meat
- Play by ear
- Pound of flesh
- Prick up your ears
- Pull the wool over your eyes
- Pull your finger out
- Pulling one's leg
- Put up your dukes
- Put your back up
- Put your best foot forward
- Put your nose out of joint
- Put your shoulder to the wheel
- Rack your brains
- Rule of thumb
- Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything
- Set one's teeth on edge
- Shake a leg
- Shit for brains
- Show a leg
- Shut your cake-hole
- Side boob
- Silver tongued
- Skin and blister
- Standing on the shoulders of giants
- Sticks and stones may break my bones
- Stiffen the sinews
- Stuck in my craw
- Sweating cobs
- Take the bit between your teeth
- Talk to the hand ('cause the face ain't listening)
- The apple of my eye
- The face that launched a thousand ships
- The hairy eyeball
- The human body
- The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
- The long arm of the law
- The moving finger writes
- Thumbs up
- Thunder thighs
- Tits-up
- Toe the line
- Tongue in cheek
- Tooth and nail
- Turn a blind eye
- Twinkle toes
- Two heads are better than one
- Under the thumb
- Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
- Upside down
- Warts and all
- Wear your heart on your sleeve
- Win hands down
- You can't get blood out of a stone
- You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent
- Young at heart