Thumbnail Phrases

Phrases

• 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)
• 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
• 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
• Figure painting (a form of painting in which the human body is the subject)
• Fruiting body
• He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum (line from nursery rhyme)
• Heavenly body
• If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
• Keep body and soul together
• Milk. It does a body good (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Over my dead body
• Rule of thumb
• Sticks out like a sore thumb
• Stops body odour (Lifebouy Soap advertising slogan)
• The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Body Guard (Nickname of Baron Davis)
• The body is still warm
• The body of evidence
• Thumb a ride
• Thumb lashing
• Thumb your nose
• Thumbnail sketch
• Under My Thumb (Rolling Stones song)
• Under the thumb
• 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)
• You too can have a body like mine (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)