Shoulder Phrases

Phrases

• A chip on his shoulder
• 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 shoulder to cry on
• An albatross round his neck
• Arm candy
• Arm in arm
• As fast as his legs could carry him
• As long as your arm
• Bear the brunt
• Blue collar worker
• 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
• Break your neck
• Breathing down your neck
• Broad shoulders
• By the scruff of your neck
• Can't carry a tune in a bucket
• Carry a torch for
• Carry a tune
• Carry coals to Newcastle
• Carry forward
• Carry into action
• Carry it off
• Carry on like a pork chop
• Carry on with
• Carry out
• Carry the ball
• Carry the can
• Carry the cost
• Carry the day
• Carry the world before you
• Case the joint
• Chance your arm
• Clip joint
• Cold shoulder
• Cost an arm and a leg
• Couldn't carry a tune in a bucket
• Dead from the neck up
• 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
• Fast as his legs could carry him
• Feel someone's collar
• Fetch and carry
• Figure painting (a form of painting in which the human body is the subject)
• Fruiting body
• Gallic shrug
• Galloping dandruff
• Get it in the neck
• Give one's right arm for

• Good head on his shoulders
• Gregory Peck (Cockney rhyming slang for neck)
• Hang by the neck until dead
• Head and shoulders above
• Heavenly body
• Hot under the collar
• I never knew you had dandruff (Head and Shoulders shampoo advertising slogan)
• If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
• If push comes to shove
• Infamy Infamy! They've all got it in for me! (Kenneth Williams line in Carry On Cleo)
• It's what your right arm's for (Courage Beer advertising slogan)
• Joint venture
• Keep body and soul together
• Keep calm and carry on
• Keep your shoulder to the wheel
• Laser Rocket Arm (Nickname of Peyton Manning)
• Look over your shoulder
• Milk. It does a body good (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Neck and crop
• Neck and neck
• Neck beard (hair growth on the neck)
• Old head on young shoulders
• On the shoulders of giants
• Over my dead body
• Over the shoulder boulder holder (jokey term for bra)
• Pain in the neck
• Pay an arm and a leg
• Put your nose out of joint
• Radio collar
• Ring around the collar (Wisk detergent advertising slogan)
• Rock and boulder (Cockney rhyming slang for shoulder)
• Rub shoulders with
• Shot in the arm
• Shoulder responsibility
• Shoulder surf
• Shoulder to shoulder
• Shoulder to the grindstone
• Shove it down someone's throat
• Shove off
• Shrug it off
• Shrug your shoulders
• Slip the collar
• Speak softly and carry a big stick
• Square your shoulders
• Stick your neck out
• Stops body odour (Lifebouy Soap advertising slogan)
• Straight from the shoulder
• Strong in the arm and thick in the head
• The Body Guard (Nickname of Baron Davis)
• The Man With The Golden Arm (Frank Sinatra movie)
• The body is still warm
• The body of evidence
• The long arm of the law
• This neck of the woods
• Took the collar (A baseball expression meaning failing to get any hits)
• Twist your arm
• Up to your neck in trouble
• 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)
• We carry everything (Pickford's Removals advertising slogan)
• When push comes to shove
• Win by a neck
• Wind your neck in
• Yorkshire born in Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head
• You too can have a body like mine (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)

Related

• A chip on his shoulder
• A shoulder to cry on
• Cold shoulder
• Keep your shoulder to the wheel
• Look over your shoulder
• Over the shoulder boulder holder (jokey term for bra)
• Rock and boulder (Cockney rhyming slang for shoulder)
• Shoulder responsibility
• Shoulder surf
• Shoulder to shoulder
• Shoulder to the grindstone
• Straight from the shoulder