Body Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A chip on his shoulder
• A finger of Fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat (Cadbury's advertising slogan)
• A foot in both camps
• A head for business and a body for sin
• A healthy mind in a healthy body
• A lump in the throat
• A man after my own heart
• A room without books is like a body without a soul (Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation)
• A shoulder to cry on
• A viper in your bosom
• Able bodied
• Above my head
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder
• Absolute pitch (the ability to determine a musical note by ear)
• Acid head
• Affair of the heart
• After your own heart
• Air head
• All mouth and trousers
• Always have your nose in a book
• Ample bosom
• An albatross round his neck
• An army marches on its stomach
• An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
• Andrews for Inner Cleanliness (Andrews Liver Salts advertising slogan)
• Ankle biter
• Ankle deep
• Anybody's guess
• Arm candy
• Arm in arm
• Arms akimbo
• Arms and the Man
• As crooked as a dog's hind leg
• As cute as a bug's ear
• As long as your arm
• As mad as a bear with a sore head
• As many chins as a Chinese phone book
• As plain as the nose on your face
• As stiff as a poker
• At arms' length
• At first hand
• Athlete's foot
• Atom Heart Mother (Pink Floyd album)
• Babe in arms
• Bad taste in the mouth
• Bang your head against a brick wall
• Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
• Be it on your head
• Be still my beating heart
• Bear arms
• Bend your ear
• Bend your elbow
• Bite someone's head off
• Bite your hand off
• Bite your lip
• Biting the hand that feeds IT (The Register advertising slogan)
• Bleeding heart liberal
• Blow it out your ear
• Blow your nose
• 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 head
• Bored stiff
• Born with a silver spoon in his mouth
• Bosom buddies
• Bosom pals
• Bound hand and foot
• Bow the knee
• Bowel movement
• Break a leg
• Break your heart
• Break your neck
• Breathing down your neck
• Bring to a head
• Brothers In Arms (Dire Straits album)
• Brothers in arms
• Bury your head in the sand
• Business at hand
• Butt head
• Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth
• Butterflies in my stomach
• Button your lip
• By heart
• By the hairs on my chinny chin chin, I'll blow your house down
• By the scruff of your neck
• Call to arms
• Can't Get You Out of My Head (Kylie Minogue song)
• Can't make head or tail of it
• Can't see beyond the end of your nose
• Cap in hand
• Case the joint
• Cash in hand
• Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
• Caught with your hand in the till
• Cauliflower ear
• Chance your arm
• Change of heart
• Cheek by jowl
• Chin wag
• Chopped liver
• Clear your throat
• Clip joint
• Cock a leg
• Cock an ear
• Cold Cold Heart (Hank Williams song)
• Cold hands warm heart
• Cold shoulder
• Come the three corners of the world in arms
• Come to a head
• Condemned out of hand
• Contemplate my navel
• Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman movie)
• Cost an arm and a leg
• Couldn't make head or tail of it
• Cross my heart and hope to die
• Cross my palm with silver
• Cry from the heart
• Cry your heart out
• Curl your lip
• Cut throat competition
• Cut your own throat
• Dab hand at
• Dancing cheek to cheek
• Dead from the neck up
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Throat (Nickname of Mark Felt)
• Deep throat
• Dip your toe into the water
• Do you kiss your mother with that mouth
• 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)
• Do your head in
• Doesn't have a jealous bone in his body
• Doesn't know his arse from his elbow
• Don't Cry Your Heart Out (Cody Simpson song)
• Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Elton John song)
• Don't bite the hand that feeds you
• Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• Don't mess with my head
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose (line from nursery rhyme)
• Down in the mouth
• Ear bashing
• Ear candy
• Ear for music
• Ear popping (a sound that is loud or that catches the attention)
• Ear splitting
• Eat out of someone's hand
• Eat your heart out
• Elbow grease
• Elbow room
• Elbow to elbow
• Every picture tells a story (Doanes Backache Kidney Pills advertising slogan)
• Extend the hand of friendship
• Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
• Eyes in the back of your head
• Face palm moment
• Faint at heart
• Faint heart never won fair lady
• Fat berg (a solid mass of grease in a sewer)
• Fickle finger of fate
• Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
• Fight tooth and nail
• Figure painting (a form of painting in which the human body is the subject)
• Find it in your heart
• Finger food
• Finger in many pies
• Fish always rot from the head downwards
• Fish and finger pie (Beatles song lyric)
• Fleet of foot
• Flesh and blood
• Flesh out
• Foam at the mouth
• Fold your hand
• Follow your heart
• Follow your nose (Froot Loops advertising slogan)
• Foot in mouth
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• Foot in the door
• Foot the bill
• For your throat's sake, smoke Craven 'A' - they never vary (Craven 'A' Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Force his hand
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Fountain head
• Free hand
• Frog in the throat
• From the bottom of my heart
• From top to toe
• Fruiting body
• Full bodied
• Full head of hair
• Funny in the head
• Garbage mouth
• Gentleman at arms
• Get it in the neck
• Get it into your head
• Get it off your chest
• Get off on the right foot
• Get off on the wrong foot
• Get out of hand
• Get the upper hand
• Get to the heart of the matter
• Get up your nose
• Get your foot in the door
• Get your head around something
• Get your head down
• Get your head together
• Get your leg over
• Get your toe in the door
• Give a hand
• Give a leg up
• Give one's right arm for
• Give someone a bloody nose
• Give someone a thick ear
• Given the elbow
• Glass chin
• Go and boil your head
• Go boil your head
• Go cap in hand
• Go down on bended knee
• Go for the throat
• Go out on a limb
• Go the way of all flesh
• Go to your head
• Go-Go Gadget Arms (Nickname of basketball player Kevin Garnett)
• Good head on his shoulders
• Got to hand it to you
• Got your head screwed on
• Got your heart set on
• Grate on the ear
• Grease your palm
• Gregory Peck (Cockney rhyming slang for neck)
• Grin from ear to ear
• Habeas corpus
• 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
• Hang by the neck until dead
• Hang your head
• Hanging over your head
• Harden your heart against
• Hat in hand
• Have a hand in
• Have a heart
• Have it in hand
• Have someone's ear
• Have the stomach for
• Have your best interests at heart
• Have your head examined
• He makes my flesh crawl
• He makes my flesh creep
• He wears his heart on his sleeve
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• Head and shoulders above
• Head banger
• Head case
• Head count
• Head doctor
• Head first
• Head for figures
• Head for heights
• Head for the Border (Taco Bell Restaurants advertising slogan)
• Head for the hills
• Head for the mountains (Busch Beer advertising slogan)
• Head games
• Head honcho
• Head hunting
• Head in the clouds
• Head in the sand
• Head like a sieve
• Head of hair
• Head of steam
• Head of the family
• Head of the household
• Head off
• Head on
• Head on collision
• Head over heels in love
• Head start
• Head them off at the pass
• Head to head
• Head to toe
• Head up
• Head wind
• Heap coals of fire on someone's head
• Heart Of Gold (Neil Young song)
• Heart and soul
• Heart attack on a plate
• Heart attack waiting to happen
• Heart of Dixie (Nickname of the US state of Alabama)
• Heart of gold
• Heart of stone
• Heart rending
• Heart throb
• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• Heart to heart talk
• Heart warming
• Heart's desire
• Heart-warming experience
• Heavenly body
• Heavy Lunch (Nickname of American football player Norman Hand)
• Helping hand
• Hit it on the nose
• Hit the nail on the head
• Hold a gun to his head
• Hold up your head
• Hold your head up high
• Hold your nose
• Holding your cards close to your chest
• Home is where the heart is
• Housemaid's knee
• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
• Hungry Heart (Bruce Springsteen song)
• I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles song)
• I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti (The Silence of the Lambs)
• I could do that standing on my head
• I don't believe it (A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave)
• I never knew you had dandruff (Head and Shoulders shampoo advertising slogan)
• I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
• I'll go to the foot of our stairs
• If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
• If it ain't Stiff it ain't worth a f*ck (Stiff Records advertising slogan)
• If you can keep your head when all about you (from a poem by Kipling)
• In Abraham's bosom
• In my heart of hearts
• In one ear and out the other
• In over your head
• In the arms of Morpheus
• In the flesh
• In the palm of your hand
• In the pit of your stomach
• Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Is there anybody there?
• It's kind to your throat (Craven 'A' Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• It's no skin off my nose
• It's what your right arm's for (Courage Beer advertising slogan)

• Jog someone's elbow
• Joint venture
• Jump down my throat
• Keep a civil tongue in your head
• Keep a cool head
• Keep a stiff upper lip
• Keep body and soul together
• Keep your chin up
• Keep your ear to the ground
• Keep your finger on the pulse
• Keep your hand in
• Keep your head
• Keep your head above water
• Keep your head down
• Keep your mouth shut
• Keep your nose clean
• Keep your nose out of
• Keep your nose to the grindstone
• Keep your shoulder to the wheel
• Key to your heart
• Kill the fatted calf
• Knee deep in
• Knee high to a duck
• Knee high to a grasshopper
• Knee jerk reaction
• Knee trembler
• Knock it on the head
• Know by heart
• Know like the back of your hand
• Knuckle down to
• Knuckle head
• Knuckle sandwich
• Knuckle under
• Laser Rocket Arm (Nickname of Peyton Manning)
• Laugh your head off
• Lay a finger on
• Lay down your arms
• Lead by the nose
• Lead with the chin
• Learnt at your mother's knee
• Learnt off by heart
• Leaves a bad taste in the mouth
• 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
• Lend a hand on the land (WWII slogan)
• Lend a helping hand
• Lend an ear
• Level head
• Like a chicken with its head cut off
• Loaf of bread (Cockney rhyming slang for head)
• Long Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long in the tooth
• Look down your nose
• Look over your shoulder
• Lose your head
• Lose your heart
• Loud mouth
• M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hand (M&Ms chocolate advertising slogan)
• Made to make your mouth water (Opal Fruits advertising slogan)
• Make your head spin
• Mass hysteria
• Meat head
• Melt the heart
• Melts in the mouth
• Milk. It does a body good (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• More power to your elbow
• More than flesh and blood can stand
• Mouth breather
• Mouth off
• Mouth to mouth
• Mummy porn
• Muscle bound
• Muscle in on
• Muscle man
• My Heart Will Go On (Celine Dion song)
• My head is spinning
• My heart bleeds
• My heart missed a beat
• My heart sank into my boots
• My heart went boom when I crossed that room (Beatles song lyric)
• My stomach thinks my throat's been cut
• Nasty taste in the mouth
• Nature, red in tooth and claw
• Navel gazing
• Near and dear to my heart
• Near the knuckle
• Near to one's heart
• Neck and crop
• Neck and neck
• Neck beard (hair growth on the neck)
• Need your head examined
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Never look a gift horse in the mouth
• Nil by mouth
• No throat irritation - no cough (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger! (Nestle's Butterfinger advertising slogan)
• North and south (Cockney rhyming slang for mouth)
• Nose around
• Nose dive
• Nose for crime
• Nose for trouble
• Nose to tail
• Not right in the head
• Nothing to worry your pretty little head about
• Off hand
• Off the top of my head
• Off with his head
• Off your head
• Old head on young shoulders
• On a full stomach
• On bended knee
• On its ear
• On me head son (Invitation to cross a football so that another player can head it)
• On the back foot
• On the one hand
• On the other hand
• On the wrong foot
• On your own head be it
• One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
• One foot in the grave
• One hand tied behind your back
• One hand washes the other
• One leg at a time (Dockers advertising slogan)
• One toe over the line
• Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Neil Young song)
• Open your big mouth
• Open your heart
• Out of your head
• Out on your ear
• Over my dead body
• Over the shoulder boulder holder (jokey term for bra)
• Over the teeth and through the gums, look out stomach here it comes
• Over your head
• Pain in the neck
• Palm Sunday
• Palm off
• Pay an arm and a leg
• Pay lip service to
• Pay through the nose
• Pecker head
• Petrol head
• Pierce through the heart
• Pig's ear (Cockney rhyming slang for beer)
• Play by ear
• Point the finger
• Pointy head
• Pot head
• Potty mouth
• Potty mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• Pound of flesh
• Powder your nose
• Press the flesh
• Price on his head
• Propeller head
• Puddin' Head (Nickname of Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan))
• Puddin' Head (Nickname of Willie Jones)
• Pull your finger out
• Pull your head in
• Put a foot wrong
• Put a gun to your head
• Put flesh on your bones
• Put it on the long finger
• Put one foot in front of the other
• Put some muscle into it
• Put words into someone's mouth
• Put your best foot forward
• Put your finger on it
• Put your finger on the button
• Put your foot down
• Put your foot in it
• Put your foot in your mouth
• Put your hand in your pocket
• Put your hand to the plough
• Put your head above the parapet
• Put your head into the lion's mouth
• Put your head on the block
• Put your money where your mouth is
• Put your nose out of joint
• Put your nose where its not wanted
• Puts hair on your chest
• Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (Burt Bacharach song)
• Raining In My Heart (Buddy Holly song)
• Raise your hand if you're sure (Sure advertising slogan)
• Right hand man
• Rock and boulder (Cockney rhyming slang for shoulder)
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
• Rub someone's nose in it
• Rub your nose in it
• Run off at the mouth
• Scared stiff
• Serious as a heart attack
• Set foot in
• Set your heart on something
• Shake a leg
• Shoot your mouth off
• 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)
• Short arms, long pockets
• Shot in the arm
• Shoulder responsibility
• Shoulder surf
• Shoulder to shoulder
• Shoulder to the grindstone
• Shove it down someone's throat
• Show a leg
• Show a little leg
• Show your hand
• Sick to the stomach
• Skeleton in the cupboard
• Skeleton key
• Skeleton staff
• Sleepy head
• Sleight of hand
• Smiling from ear to ear
• Smoke Craven 'A' - will not affect your throat (Craven 'A' Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Snap someone's head off
• Sob your heart out
• Soft in the head
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Stand it on its head
• Steal someone's heart
• Stick your chin out
• Stick your neck out
• Sticks in your throat
• Stiff competition
• Stops body odour (Lifebouy Soap advertising slogan)
• Straight from the horse's mouth
• Straight from the shoulder
• Strengthen your hand
• Strong in the arm and thick in the head
• Strong stomach
• Sweet tooth
• Swimmer's ear (Inflamation of the inner ear caused by an ingress of water)
• Take These Chains From My Heart (Ray Charles song)
• Take it into your head
• Take it on the chin
• Take it to heart
• Take the bread out of someone's mouth
• Take the words out of my mouth
• Take your hand in marriage
• Talk over your head
• Talk to the hand
• Talking head
• Tell them about the honey, mummy (Sugar Puffs advertising slogan)
• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Armpit Of California (Nickname of Fresno California)
• The Armpit Of New Jersey (Nickname of Newark New Jersey)
• The Body Guard (Nickname of Baron Davis)
• The Head Ball Coach (Nickname of Steve Spurrier)
• The Heart Of America (Nickname of Kansas City Missouri)
• The Heart Of Europe (Nickname of Prague Czech Republic)
• The Heart Of The New West (Nickname of Calgary Alberta)
• The Lip (Nickname of Leo Durocher and)
• The Liver Birds (BBC comedy television series)
• The Louisville Lip (Nickname of Muhammed Ali)
• The Man With The Golden Arm (Frank Sinatra movie)
• The Man with the Twisted Lip (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Palm Beach Story (Claudette Colbert movie)
• The Palm Springs Of Washington (Nickname of Yakima Washington)
• The Steel Heart Of The Republic (Nickname of Ostrava Czech Republic)
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• The Toe (Nickname of Lou Groza)
• The answer is at hand
• The body is still warm
• The body of evidence
• The boot is on the other foot
• The hand is quicker than the eye
• The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
• The heart has its reasons
• The long arm of the law
• 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
• The shoe's on the other foot
• The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
• The way of all flesh
• The way to a man's heart is through his stomach
• There are no pockets in a shroud
• There's many a slip twixt cup and lip
• Thick ear
• This neck of the woods
• Thorn in the flesh
• Three Finger (Nickname of Mordecai Brown)
• Throw a beanball (A baseball expression meaning to attack an opponent by aiming at their head)
• Throw your arms in horror
• Thumb your nose
• Thumbnail sketch
• Tin ear
• To the heart of Seoul and beyond (Asiana Airlines advertising slogan)
• Toe the line
• Toilet mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• Tongue in cheek
• Tooth and nail
• Total Eclipse Of The Heart (Bonnie Tyler song)
• Touch your heart (Taiwan advertising slogan)
• Towel head (derogatory slang term referring to an Arab man)
• Treasure chest
• Try your hand
• Turn the other cheek
• Turn to ashes in your mouth
• Turn your nose up at
• Turn your stomach
• Twist around your little finger
• Twist your arm
• Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
• Up in arms
• Up to your neck in trouble
• Upon your head be it
• 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)
• Van Gogh's ear for music
• Vital statistics
• Wardrobe malfunction (when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast)
• Warms the cockles of my heart
• Wash your mouth out with soap and water
• Watch your mouth
• We found the weapons of mass destruction
• We know where the bodies are buried
• Weapons of mass destruction
• Wear your heart on your sleeve
• Well turned calf
• Wet the baby's head
• What a cheek
• What am I chopped liver?
• What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over
• 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?
• Wild at heart
• Win by a head
• Win by a neck
• Win by a nose
• Wind your neck in
• With open arms
• With your nose in the air
• Without a leg to stand on
• Wooden Heart (Elvis Presley song)
• Word in your ear
• Word of mouth
• Work the rabbit's foot on
• Wrapped around your little finger
• Yorkshire born in Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head
• You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, It Must Have Been Whilst You Were Kissing Me (Meatloaf song)
• You are my heart's delight
• You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear
• You too can have a body like mine (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)
• You would forget your head if it weren't screwed on
• You're My Heart, You're My Soul (Modern Talking song)
• You're all heart
• You're pulling my leg
• Young at heart
• Your Cheating Heart (Hank Williams song)
• Your eyes are bigger than your stomach
• Yummy mummy
• Zip your lip

Related

• 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
• 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
• Stops body odour (Lifebouy Soap advertising slogan)
• The Body Guard (Nickname of Baron Davis)
• The body is still warm
• The body of evidence
• 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)