English idioms about health and body parts.
Idioms that name parts of the body or describe someone's health.
Idioms
- A good face is a letter of recommendation
- Better to die on your feet than live on your knees
- For mad words, deaf ears
- God never sends mouths but he sends meat
- Neck or nothing
- Wet behind the ears
- A clean hand needs no washing
- As strong as a horse
- Beauty is only skin deep
- If you can't bite, never show your teeth
- Live from hand to mouth
- Walls have ears
- You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
- Your eyes are bigger than your belly
- Put your foot down
- On its last legs
- Keep your fingers on the pulse
- The upper hand
- Twist someone's arm
- Take something to heart
- Stab in the back
- A slap on the wrist
- Cross your fingers
- On the tip of my tongue
- Get out of hand
- Pay through the nose
- Off the top of my head
- Lend a hand
- Keep an eye on
- Bite off the hand
- Under your nose
- Keep your chin up
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Bite your tongue
- Music to my ears
- Like the back of your hand
- Born with a silver spoon in your mouth
- Butterflies in your stomach
- Caught red-handed
- Have your hands full
- Fall on deaf ears
- Give someone the cold shoulder
- Put your best foot forward
- Play it by ear
- Break a leg
- By the skin of your teeth
- Don't bite the hand that feeds you
- Laughter is the best medicine
- See eye to eye
- Turn a blind eye
- Wear your heart on your sleeve
- Cost an arm and a leg
- Hit the nail on the head
- Many hands make light work
- Two heads are better than one
- Under the weather