Body and bodily functions Idioms (Page 8)

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Pull the wool over someone's eyes: If you pull the wool over someone's eyes, you deceive or cheat them.
Pull your finger out!: (UK) If someone tells you to do this, they want you to hurry up. ('Get your finger out' is also used.)
Put a bug in your ear: If you put a bug in someone's ear, you give him or her a reminder or suggestion relating to a future event.
Put on a brave face: If you put on a brave face, or put a brave face on something, you behave confidently or cheerfully even though things are difficult. ('Brave front' is also used.)
Put or get someone's back up: If you put or get someone's back up, you annoy them.
Put somebody's nose out of joint: If you put someone's nose out of joint, you irritate them or make them angry with you.
Put your best foot forward: If you ut your best foot forward, you try your best to do something.
Put your foot down: When someone puts their foot down, they make a firm stand and establish their authority on an issue.
Put your foot in it: If you put your foot in it, you do or say something embarrassing and tactless or get yourself into trouble.
Put your foot in your mouth: If you put your foot in your mouth, you say something stupid or embarrassing.
Put your hand on your heart: If you can out your hand on your heart, then you can say something knowing it to be true.
Put your heads together: If people put their head together, they exchange ideas about something.
Put your money where your mouth is: If someone puts their money where their mouth is, they back up their words with action.
Put your shoulder to the wheel: When you put your shoulder to the wheel, you contribute to an effort.
Put your thumb on the scales: If you put your thumb on the scales, you try to influence the result of something in your favour.
Rack your brain: If you rack your brain, you think very hard when trying to remember something or think hard to solve a problem, findf and answer, etc. ('Rack your brains' is an alternative.)
Raise eyebrows: If something raises eyebrows, it shocks or surprises people.
Rib tickler: A rib tickler is a story or joke that will make you laugh a lot. Alternately, a joke might "tickle your ribs".
Roll your eyes: If you roll your eyes, you show with your eyes that you don't believe someone or aren't interested in what they're saying.
Rub shoulders: If you rub shoulders with people, you meet and spend time with them, especially when they are powerful or famous.
Rule of thumb: Rule of thumb means approximately.
Run off your feet: If you are run off your feet, you are extremely busy and don't have enough time to do everything.
Run your mouth off: If someone runs their mouth off, they talk too much.
Safe pair of hands: A person who can be trusted to do something without causing any trouble is a safe pair of hands.
Save face: If someone saves face, they manage to protect their reputation.
Save your skin: If someone saves their skin, they manage to avoid getting into serious trouble.
Scales fall from your eyes: When the scales fall from your eyes, you suddenly realise the truth about something.
Scent blood: If you can scent blood, you feel that a rival is having difficulties and you are going to beat them.
Sea legs: If you are getting your sea legs, it takes you a while to get used to something new.
See eye to eye: If people see eye to eye, they agree about everything.
Set your teeth on edge: If something, especially sounds, sets your teeth on edge, you react very negatively to it.
Shake a leg: If you shake a leg, you are out of bed and active. It can be used to tell someone to hurry up.
Shoot yourself in the foot: If you shoot yourself in the foot, you do something that damages your ambition, career, etc.
Shot in the arm: If something gives you a shot in the arm, it encourages you, gives you energy or improves morale.
Sight for sore eyes: Someone or something that is a sight for sore eyes is a pleasure to see.
Skin and bones: If someone is skin and bones, they are very underweight and look bad.
Skin in the game: A person who has skin in the game has invested in the company they are running.
Skin someone alive: If someone skins you alive, they admonish and punish you hard.
Slap on the wrist: If someone gets a slap on the wrist, they get a very minor punishment when they could have been punished more severely.
Sleight of hand: Sleight of hand is the ability to use your hands in a clever way, like a magician performing tricks you can't see.
Slip of the tongue: If you say something accidentally, it is a slip of the tongue.
Slip through one's fingers: If something slips through one’s fingers it escapes or is lost through carelessness.
Smack in the face: If something is a smack in the face, it is a shock, usually one that impedes progress.
Smooth as a baby's bottom: If something is smooth as a baby's bottom, it has a regular, flat surface.
Speak with a forked tongue: To say one thing and mean another, to lie, to be two-faced
Spill your guts: If you spill your guts, you confess or make your problems public.
Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak: If the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, someone lacks the willpower to change things they do because they derive too much pleasure from them.
Spit blood: If someone is spitting blood, they are absolutely furious.
Spit it out: People say this when someone has something to say but is too embarrassed, shy, etc, to say it.
Split hairs: If people split hairs, they concentrate on tiny and unimportant details to find fault with something.

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