Knuckle Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A finger of Fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat (Cadbury's advertising slogan)
• 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)
• At first hand
• Bite your hand off
• Biting the hand that feeds IT (The Register advertising slogan)
• 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
• Bound hand and foot
• Business at hand
• Cap in hand
• Case the joint
• Cash in hand
• Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
• Caught with your hand in the till
• Clip joint
• Condemned out of hand
• Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman movie)
• Dab hand at
• 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
• Don't bite the hand that feeds you
• Dr. Iron Fist (Nickname of Vitali Klitschko)
• Eat out of someone's hand
• Extend the hand of friendship
• Fickle finger of fate
• Figure painting (a form of painting in which the human body is the subject)
• Finger food
• Finger in many pies
• Fish and finger pie (Beatles song lyric)
• Fist of Steel (Nickname of boxer Chevelle Hallback)
• Fold your hand
• Force his hand
• Free hand
• Fruiting body
• Get out of hand
• Get the upper hand
• Give a hand
• Go cap in hand
• Got to hand it to you
• Hand a line
• Hand in glove
• Hand in hand
• Hand in your notice
• Hand it on a plate
• Hand it over
• Hand job
• Hand me down
• Hand me downs
• Hand over
• Hand over fist
• Hand picked
• Hand to mouth
• Hand's turn
• Hat in hand
• Have a hand in
• Have it in hand

• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• Heavenly body
• Heavy Lunch (Nickname of American football player Norman Hand)
• Helping hand
• I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles song)
• If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
• In the palm of your hand
• Iron fist in velvet glove
• Joint venture
• Keep body and soul together
• Keep your finger on the pulse
• Keep your hand in
• Know like the back of your hand
• Knuckle down to
• Knuckle head
• Knuckle sandwich
• Knuckle under
• Lay a finger on
• Lend a hand on the land (WWII slogan)
• Lend a helping hand
• M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hand (M&Ms chocolate advertising slogan)
• Make a good fist of it
• Milk. It does a body good (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Near the knuckle
• Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger! (Nestle's Butterfinger advertising slogan)
• Off hand
• On the one hand
• On the other hand
• One hand tied behind your back
• One hand washes the other
• Over my dead body
• Point the finger
• Pull your finger out
• Put it on the long finger
• Put your finger on it
• Put your finger on the button
• Put your hand in your pocket
• Put your hand to the plough
• Put your nose out of joint
• Raise your hand if you're sure (Sure advertising slogan)
• Rap over the knuckles
• Right hand man
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
• Rule with an iron fist
• Show your hand
• Sleight of hand
• Stops body odour (Lifebouy Soap advertising slogan)
• Strengthen your hand
• Take your hand in marriage
• Talk to the hand
• The Body Guard (Nickname of Baron Davis)
• The answer is at hand
• The body is still warm
• The body of evidence
• The hand is quicker than the eye
• The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
• The matter in hand
• The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand (M&M advertising slogan)
• The moving finger writes
• The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on (from a poem by Fitzgerald)
• The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
• Three Finger (Nickname of Mordecai Brown)
• Try your hand
• Twist around your little finger
• Upper hand
• Vacation is a world where there are no locks on the doors or the mind or the body (Club Med Resorts advertising slogan)
• Wardrobe malfunction (when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast)
• What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)
• Whip hand
• White knuckle ride
• Who's finger do you want on the trigger?
• Wrapped around your little finger
• You too can have a body like mine (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)