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deaf ears; to fall on smb’s ears; to get smb up on his ears; to
offend smb’s ear; to grin from ear to ear; to have itching ears; to
have long ears; in at one ear and out at the other; to keep one’s
ears open; not to believe one’s ears; one’s ears are burning; to ring
in one’s ears; to set smb by the ears; to strain one’s ears; to tickle
smb’s ear; up to one’s ears; wet behind the ears; who has ears to
hear, let him hear.
Eye - Eyes are the mirror of the soul; all my eye (and Betty Martin); to
appear to smb’s eyes; to be all eyes; to be in/get into/come into the
public eye; to belive one’s own eyes;to black smb’s eye; to burst
upon the eye; by eye; to clap/lay/set eyes on smb/smth; to close
one’s eyes; to close one’s eyes to smth; to turn a blind eye on/to
smth; to collect eyes; evil eye; an eye for an eye and a tooth for a
tooth; eyes only; to fasten/rivet/fix one’s eyes on smth/smb; a
fishy eye; for smb’s fair eyes; four eyes are more than two; to
keep an eye on smb; to get one’s eye well in; to go eyes out; goo-
goo eyes; to have an eye for smth; to have an eye in one’s head; to
keep an eye out for smb/smth; to have eyes at the back of one’s
head; to have in one’s eye; haven’t you any eyes in your head?; to
have one’s eyes glued on; if you had half an eye; to look smb in
the eye; to look with another eye upon smth; to make big eyes; to
make eyes at smb; to measure smb with one’s eye; one’s eyes are
bigger than one’s stomach; one’s eyes stand out of one’s head;
painted to the eyes; one’s eyes draw straws; please one’s eye and
plague one’s heart; a private eye; to sleep with one eye open; what
the eye does not see the heart cannot grieve;
Eyelash – never batted/without batting an eyelash.
Face - The face is the index of the mind. A good face is a letter of
recommendation; a fair face may hide a foul heart; her face is her
fortune; it is written all over his face; before smb’s face; to
cast/fling/throw smth in smb’s face; a face as long as a fiddle; to
fall flat on one’s face; to fly in the face of smb; to have the face to
do/say smth; to laugh in smb’s face; to lose face; to make a (sad,
sanctimonious, wry) face; to put a good face on smth; right about
face; to save one’s/smb’s face; to smb’s face.
Figure - Make pleasant figure in everything.
Finger - Better a finger off than eye wagging; are your fingers all
thumbs?; one’s little finger is thicker than another’s loin; to burn
one’s fingers; butter fingers; can be counted on the fingers of one
hand; to have a finger in the pie; to keep one’s finger on the pulse;
to have/keep one’s fingers crossed; to have smth at one’s fingers’
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