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ends; to have sticky fingers; to let smb/smth slip through one’s
fingers; not to be worth smb’s little finger; one’s fingers itch; to
one’s finger’s ends; to turn/twist/wrap/wind smb around one’s
(little) finger.
Foot – to be dead on one’s feet; to be light on one’s feet; better the foot
slip than the tongue; to catch smb on the wrong foot; to come on
he hot foot; crow’s feet; to fall on one’s feet; to find one’s feet; to
get/start off on the right foot; to get/start off on the wrong foot; to
have a foot in both camps; to have one foot in the grave; to have
two left feet; to lay smth at smb’s feet; to measure another man’s
foot by one’s own last; on foot; to put one’s foot in it; to throw
oneself at smb’s feet.
Hair - Does one who has long hair always have short wit?; to bring
smb’s gray hairs to the grave; a bush/head of hair; by a
hair/within a hair of; to lose one’s hair/to get one’s hair off; a hair
in the soup; not to harm/touch a hair of smb’s head; one’s hair
stands on end; to tear one’s hair; to a hair.
Hand - A cold hand and a warm heart; at first hand; at hand; at second
hand; to give/lend a hand to be off smb’s hands; to bind smb hand
and foot; to do everything with clean hands; don’t bite the hand
that feeds you; many hands make light work; does your left hand
know what your right hand does?; are your hands full?; to
eat/feed out of smb’s hand; an empty hand is no lure for a hawk;
to fall into bad/good hands; to fold one’s hands; to free/untie
smb’s hands; a fresh/green hand; from hand to hand; to
gain/get/have an upper hand; to put/give one’s last hand to smth;
to be hand and/in glove; hand over fist; hands down; to have a
hand in smth; to have long hands; to have smb’s fate in one’s
hands; to keep a firm hand on smb; to keep one’s hands off smb;
to lay one’s hand on one’s heart; to live from hand to mouth; an
old hand; one hand washes another/the other; on the one hand …
on the other hand; to play into smb’s hands; to play one’s hand for
all it is worth; put not your hand between the bark and the tree; to
throw in/up one’s hands to try one’s hand at smth; to wait on smb
hand and foot; to wash one’s hands of smb; to win hands down;
with a sparing hand.
Head - Never hurt a hair on anybody’s head; to be head and/over ears in
love, debt, work; to beat/butt/knock/run one’s head against a
brick/stone wall; better to be the head of a dog than the tail of a
lion; to bury/hide one’s head in the sand; to buy smth over smb’s
head; to come into one’s head; a cool head; to drag by the head
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