Ankle Phrases

Phrases

• A bone to pick
• A foot in both camps
• A head for business and a body for sin
• A healthy mind in a healthy body
• A room without books is like a body without a soul (Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation)
• A slap on the wrist
• Achilles' heel
• Ankle biter
• Ankle deep
• As crooked as a dog's hind leg
• As dry as a bone
• Athlete's foot
• Back on your feet
• Body and soul
• Body bag
• Body blow
• Body building
• Body heat
• Body language
• Body mass index
• Body of evidence
• Body of opinion
• Body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch
• Body painting (a form of painting that uses the human body as a canvas)
• Body politic
• Body popping
• Body snatcher
• Body surfing
• Bone dry
• Bone head
• Bone idle
• Bone of contention
• Bone to pick with you
• Bone up on
• Bone weary
• Bone yard
• Bound hand and foot
• Bow the knee
• Break a leg
• Brought to heel
• Case the joint
• Chilled to the bone
• Clip joint
• Close to the bone
• Cock a leg
• Cold feet
• Cost an arm and a leg
• Cut prices to the bone
• Cut the ground from under your feet
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Do you know the piano's on my foot?
• Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? (Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan)
• Doesn't have a jealous bone in his body
• Dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang for telephone)
• Don't let the grass grow under your feet
• Down at heel
• Drag your feet
• Fall on your feet
• Feet of clay
• Figure painting (a form of painting in which the human body is the subject)
• Find your feet
• Fleet of foot
• Foot in mouth
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• Foot in the door
• Foot the bill
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Fruiting body
• Get back on your feet
• Get off on the right foot
• Get off on the wrong foot
• Get under your feet
• Get your feet under the table
• Get your feet wet
• Get your foot in the door
• Get your leg over
• Give a leg up
• Go down on bended knee
• Have a bone to pick
• Have the ball at your feet
• Heavenly body
• High heel sneakers
• Housemaid's knee
• I don't believe it (A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave)
• I'll go to the foot of our stairs
• If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
• Itchy feet
• Joint venture
• Jump in with both feet
• Keep body and soul together
• Keep your feet
• Keep your feet on the ground
• Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars (A catchphrase from Casey Kasem In America's Top 40)
• Knee deep in
• Knee high to a duck
• Knee high to a grasshopper
• Knee jerk reaction
• Knee trembler
• Lady Madonna, children at your feet (Beatles song lyric)
• Land on your feet
• Learnt at your mother's knee
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg it
• Leg lamp
• Leg over
• Leg pull
• Leg up
• Light on your feet
• Lightning Feet (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
• Long Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Milk. It does a body good (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• On bended knee
• On the back foot
• On the wrong foot
• One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
• One foot in the grave
• One leg at a time (Dockers advertising slogan)
• One off the wrist
• Out on your feet
• Over my dead body
• Pay an arm and a leg
• Plates of meat (Cockney rhyming slang for feet)
• Pull the rug from under your feet
• Put a foot wrong
• Put one foot in front of the other
• Put your best foot forward
• Put your feet up
• Put your foot down
• Put your foot in it
• Put your foot in your mouth
• Put your nose out of joint
• Run off your feet
• Set foot in
• Shake a leg
• Shoot yourself in the foot
• Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Show a leg
• Show a little leg
• Six feet under
• Skin and bone
• Smack on the wrist
• So fast your feet won't touch the ground
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Stand on your own two feet
• Stops body odour (Lifebouy Soap advertising slogan)
• Sweep off your feet
• Take the weight off your feet
• Telling bone
• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Body Guard (Nickname of Baron Davis)
• The body is still warm
• The body of evidence
• The boot is on the other foot
• The patter of tiny feet
• The shoe's on the other foot
• Think on your feet
• Turn on your heel
• Two left feet
• Under the heel of
• Vacation is a world where there are no locks on the doors or the mind or the body (Club Med Resorts advertising slogan)
• Vote with your feet
• Walk someone off their feet
• Walk to heel
• Wardrobe malfunction (when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast)
• Without a leg to stand on
• Work one's fingers to the bone
• Work the rabbit's foot on
• You too can have a body like mine (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)
• You're pulling my leg