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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
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A few
cards
short of a full deck
A
finger
of Fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat ( Cadbury's advertising slogan )
A
hands
turn
A head for business and a
body
for sin
A healthy mind in a healthy
body
A laurel and hearty
handshake
A room without books is like a
body
without a soul ( Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation )
A slap on the
wrist
All
hands
on deck
All
hands
to the pump
Arm
candy
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Arm
in
arm
As long as your
arm
At first hand
Backhanded compliment
Bite your hand off
Biting the hand that feeds IT ( The Register advertising slogan )
Blood on your
hands
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
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Bound hand and foot
Business at hand
Cack
handed
Cap in hand
Cash in hand
Caught red-handed
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Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
Caught with your hand in the till
Chance your
arm
Change
hands
Clap
him in irons
Cold
hands
warm heart
Come out with your
hands
up
Company man ( a
worker
especially loyal to the employer he works for )
Condemned out of hand
Cool Hand Luke ( Paul Newman movie )
Cost an
arm
and a leg
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Couldn't lay a
glove
on me
Cross my
palm
with silver
Dab hand at
Deck of
cards
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
Eat out of someone's hand
Empty
handed
Even
handed
Extend the hand of friendship
Face card ( the jack queeen or king in a set of playing
cards
)
Face
palm
moment
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 )
Fits like a
glove
Five by five
Fold your hand
Force his hand
Free hand
Fruiting
body
Get out of hand
Get the upper hand
Get your
hands
dirty
Gimme, five
Give a hand
Give one's right
arm
for
Glove
money
Go cap in hand
Go to hell in a
handbasket
Golden
handshake
Golden parachute
Good
hands
Got to hand it to you
Grease your
palm
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
Hand-held device
Hand-to-gland combat ( slang term for masturbation )
Handbags at ten paces
Handbrake
turn ( 180 degree turn in a car by locking the back wheels )
Hands
across the sea
Hands
free
Hands
on
Hands
that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid ( Fairy Liquid advertising slogan )
Hands
up
Hands
up if you use Right Guard,
Hands
down if you don't ( Right Guard antiperspirant advertising slogan )
Hat in hand
Have a hand in
Have clean
hands
Have it in hand
He put in his
thumb
and pulled out a plum ( line from nursery rhyme )
Healing
hands
Heart to God, hand to man ( The Salvation Army advertising slogan )
Heavenly
body
Heavy Lunch ( Nickname of American football player Norman Hand )
Heavy
handed
Helping hand
High five
High
handed
Hold all the
cards
Hold
hands
Holding your
cards
close to your chest
Home
worker
House of
cards
I Want To Hold Your Hand ( Beatles song )
If I said you had a beautiful
body
would you hold it against me?
If you're happy and you know it,
clap
your
hands
In a world full surrounded by Windows, we're handing out rocks ( BeOS Radio advertising slogan )
In safe
hands
In the
hands
of the receiver
In the
palm
of your hand
Iron fist in velvet
glove
It takes two
hands
to hold a Whopper ( Burger King advertising slogan )
It's what your right arm's for ( Courage Beer advertising slogan )
Jive
talk
Jive
talkin' ( Bee Gees song )
Join
hands
Kack
handed
Keep
body
and soul together
Keep your
finger
on the pulse
Keep your hand in
Keep your
hands
to yourself
Know like the back of your hand
Knuckle
down to
Knuckle
head
Knuckle
sandwich
Knuckle
under
Laser Rocket
Arm
( Nickname of Peyton Manning )
Lay a
finger
on
Lay
hands
on
Lay your
cards
on the table
Left-handed compliment
Lend a hand on the land ( WWII slogan )
Lend a helping hand
Let's shake
hands
on it
Little
Hands
of Stone ( Nickname of Michael Carbajal )
Look ma, no hands!
Look, no
hands
Lose
hands
down
Lucky at cards, unlucky in love
M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hand ( M&Ms chocolate advertising slogan )
Many
hands
make light work
Milk. It does a
body
good ( Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan )
Mob
handed
My
hands
are tied
Near the
knuckle
Nobody better lay a
finger
on my Butterfinger! ( Nestle's Butterfinger advertising slogan )
Off hand
Off your
hands
On the
cards
On the one hand
On the other hand
One hand tied behind your back
One hand washes the other
One off the
wrist
Over my dead
body
Palm
Sunday
Palm
off
Pay an
arm
and a leg
Play your
cards
right
Point the
finger
Pull your
finger
out
Put it on the long
finger
Put your
cards
on the table
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
hands
together
Raise your hand if you're sure ( Sure advertising slogan )
Right hand man
Royal flush ( in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit )
Rule of
thumb
Safe pair of
hands
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Shot in the
arm
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Show of
hands
Show your hand
Sit on your
hands
Sleight of hand
Smack on the
wrist
Smell the
Glove
( fictional album by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal Tap )
Sticks out like a sore
thumb
Stops
body
odour ( Lifebouy Soap advertising slogan )
Strengthen your hand
Strong in the
arm
and thick in the head
Switch hitter ( A baseball expression denoting a batter who can hit left or right
handed
)
Take the law into your own
hands
Take your hand in marriage
Take your life in your
hands
Talk to the hand
The Adventure of the Engineer's
Thumb
( Sherlock Holmes story )
The
Body
Guard ( Nickname of Baron Davis )
The Devil finds work for idle
hands
to do
The
Glove
( Nickname of Gary Payton )
The Man With The Golden
Arm
( Frank Sinatra movie )
The
Palm
Beach Story ( Claudette Colbert movie )
The
Palm
Springs Of Washington ( Nickname of Yakima Washington )
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 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
Three
Finger
( Nickname of Mordecai Brown )
Thumb
a ride
Thumb
lashing
Thumb
your nose
Time on your
hands
Try your hand
Twist around your little
finger
Twist your
arm
Under My
Thumb
( Rolling Stones song )
Under the
thumb
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 )
Wash your
hands
of it
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?
Winning
hands
down
Wrapped around your little
finger
Wring one's
hands
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 )
You're in good
hands
( Allstate Insurance advertising slogan )