23330 body idioms

Read the following sentences and fill
in the missing “parts of the body“ from the box.
tongue  teeth  heart  face 
skeleton  hair  teeth  cheek 
blood  flesh  bone  face  neck 
nose  skin  foot

1. Show me somebody with no _______________s in their cupboard, and
I’ll show you a skilful liar.
2. The police are underpaid and underequipped while the criminals are armed
to the _______________ .
3. Most
farmers
have
bank
managers
breathing
down
their
_______________s, so everything has to have an economic reason.
4. He survived the accident by the _______________ of his
_______________ .
5. Now that he was _______________ to _______________ with the
inspector, the burgler found it difficult to explain his action.
6. I could see nobody. But they could see me. It made my
_______________ crawl. They were watching.
7. I think people are taking all this more seriously than we intented. It was
supposed to be _______________ in _______________ .
8. The young driver will have to _______________ the bill for the damage
to both cars.
9. The situation has reached crisis point because of the bad

_______________ between the two.
10. She admits that when she saw the flat Jeremy had set his
_______________ on, her first reaction was surprise.
11. There is more to life than keeping one’s ____________ to the
grindstone and saving for a rainy day.
12. The hard fact is that they have got us by the short
_______________s. We can’t do anything without material support from
them.
13. I have a _______________ to pick with you. Let’s talk it over now.


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skeleton (to have a skeleton in the cupboard/closet)
teeth (armed to the teeth)
necks (to breathe down someone’s neck)
skin, teeth (to do sth. By the skin of your teeth)
face to face
flesh (to make somebody’s flesh creep or crawl, to make somebody’s skin
crawl)
7. tongue, cheek (sth. Is said or written tongue in cheek)
8. foot (to have to foot the bill)
9. blood (there is a bad blood between two people/groups)
10. heart (to set your heart on sth.)

11. nose (to keep one’s nose to the grindstone)
12. hairs (to have somebody by the short hairs)
13. bone (to have a bone to pick with someone)