[BobK]

Today's ration - from the neck down to the waist:

stick your neck out - invite trouble:
"If you don't say anything nobody will notice. There's no need to stick your neck out."

show someone the cold shoulder - shun them/ignore them:
"I spoke to them, but they showed me the cold shoulder,"

have a chip on your shoulder - be unreasonably sensitive about something:
"He has a chip on his shoulder about his father being a dust-man."

make a clean breast of - confess:
"Rather than wait for people to find out, it'd be best to make a clean breast of it."

get something off your chest - get relief by confessing something:
"You'll feel better once you've go it off your chest. Make a clean breast of it."

give someone the elbow - break up a long-standing relationship:
"After they'd been living together for 5 years she gave him the elbow."

give someone a hand - help (not necessarily manually):
"Can I give you a hand with that?"

have the guts - this was in a previous post.

have the stomach (for) - to have the guts (!) usually for a fight (or some kind of contention):
"He could have carried on arguing, but he just didn't have the stomach for it."


And one that belonged in yesterday's post:

put someone's nose out of joint - make them feel undervalued, slighted, or insulted.
"She was the only one not to be invited, which really put her nose out of joint."

b