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A bird in the
hand
is worth two in the bush
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A chip on his
shoulder
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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
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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
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Absolute pitch ( the ability to determine a musical note by
ear
)
Acid
head
Affair of the
heart
After your own
heart
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Air
head
All
mouth
and trousers
Always have your
nose
in a book
Ample
bosom
An albatross round his
neck
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An army marches on its
stomach
An eye for an eye, a
tooth
for a
tooth
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Andrews for Inner Cleanliness ( Andrews
Liver
Salts advertising slogan )
Ankle
biter
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Ankle
deep
Anybody's guess
Arm
candy
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Arm
in
arm
Arms
akimbo
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Arms
and the Man
As crooked as a dog's hind
leg
As cute as a bug's
ear
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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
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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
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Bone
head
Bored
stiff
Born with a silver spoon in his
mouth
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Bosom
buddies
Bosom
pals
Bound
hand
and
foot
Bow the
knee
Bowel
movement
Break a
leg
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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
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Business at
hand
Butt
head
Butter wouldn't melt in her
mouth
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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
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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
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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
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Don't look a gift horse in the
mouth
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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