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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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