Thought for the day...

There's no smoke without fire
There's no such thing as a free lunch
There's no such thing as bad publicity
There's no time like the present
There's none so deaf as they that will not hear
There's one born every minute
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas
Time and tide wait for no man
Time is a great healer
To err is human, to forgive divine
To the victor goes the spoils
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive
Tomorrow never comes
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Truth is stranger than fiction
Turn of phrase
Two heads are better then one
Two wrongs don't make a right
Walk softly but carry a big stick
Waste not want not
We've arrived, and to prove it we're here
When the cat's away the mice will play
Where there's a will there's a way
Worrying never did anyone any good
You can't get blood out of a stone
You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs
You can't make bricks without straw
You can't teach an old dog new tricks
You can't tell a book by looking at its cover
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
Youth is wasted on the young

 

PHRASES THAT REFER TO PARTS OF THE BODY (350 of them so it will take a few days)

A babe in arms
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
A dab hand at
A finger in many pies
A foot in the door
A glass jaw
A good head on his shoulders
A head for figures
A head for heights
A head like a sieve
A healthy mind in a healthy body
A heart of gold
A heart to heart talk
A heart-warming experience
A kick in the teeth
A man after his own heart
A nose for crime
A nose for trouble
A pain in the arse
A price on his head
A shot in the arm
A smack on the wrist
A strong stomach
A thick ear
A thorn in the flesh
A well turned calf
Able bodied
Above my head
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
After your own heart
Air head
All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth
All mouth and trousers
All my eye and Betty Martin
Always have your nose in a book
An affair of the heart
An albatross round his neck
An ample bosom
An army marches on its stomach
An ear bashing
An ear for music
An eye for a bargain
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
An iron fist in velvet glove
An old head on young shoulders
Ankle biter
Ankle deep
Arm in arm
Armed to the teeth
Arse about face
Arse over tit
As busy as a one legged arse kicker
As cold as a well digger's arse
As crooked as a dog's hind leg
As cute as a bug's ear
As far as the eye can see
As fine as frog's hair
As long as my arm
As mad as a bear with a sore head
As many chins as a Chinese phone book
As plain as the nose on your face
As scarce as hen's teeth
As stiff as a poker
As tight as a duck's arse
As useless as tits on a boar
Athlete's foot

 

Bad hair day
Banging your head against a brick wall
Bare one's teeth
Be it on your head
Be still my quiet heart
Bear arms
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Bend your ear
Bend your elbow
Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
Bird's eye view
Bite someone's head off
Bite the hand that feeds you
Bite your head off
Bite your lip
Bite your tongue
Body and soul
Body bag
Body blow
Body building
Body heat
Body language
Body of evidence
Body of opinion
Body politic
Body popping
Body snatcher
Body surfing
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth
Bosom pals
Bound hand and foot
Bow the knee
Brain dead
Brain drain
Brain teaser
Brain wave
Break a leg
Bring to a head
Brothers in arms
Bury your head in the sand
Butt head
Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth
Butterflies in my stomach
Button your lip
By the hairs on my chinny chin chin, I'll blow your house down
By the skin of your teeth
By the sweat of his brow

 

Keep on keeping on! You will continue to learn through the years and it does make you wonder. If only some things could be taught to young people but it seems they have to experience some of the same foolish things we experienced.

 

Can't make head or tail of it
Can't see beyond the end of your nose
Cap in hand
Case the joint
Cast an eye over
Caught with your hand in the till
Change of heart
Cheek by jowl
Chin wag
Chip on his shoulder
Cold hands warm heart
Come the three corners of the world in arms
Condemned out of hand
Contemplate my navel
Cost an arm and a leg
Couldn't make head or tail of it
Cross my heart and hope to die
Cross my palm with silver
Cry your heart out
Cut off your nose to spite your face
Cut throat competition
Dancing cheek to cheek
Dead from the neck up
Doesn't know his arse from a hole in the ground
Doesn't know his arse from his elbow
Don't bite the hand that feeds you
Don't bother your pretty little head about it
Don't get your tits in the wringer
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
Down in the mouth
Ear splitting
Eat your heart out
Eating out of someone's hand
Elbow grease
Elbow room
Extend the hand of friendship
Eye catching
Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
Eye to eye
Eyes in the back of your head

 

Faint heart never won fair lady
Fed up to the back teeth
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Fight tooth and nail
Finger lickin good
Fleet of foot
Flesh and blood
Flesh out
Foam at the mouth
Follow your nose
Foot in mouth
Foot the bill
Frog in the throat
From the bottom of my heart
Gentleman at arms
Get it in the neck
Get it into your head
Get it off your chest
Get off on the right foot
Get off on the wrong foot
Get off your arse
Get out of hand
Get the bit between your teeth
Get the upper hand
Get up your nose
Get your eye in
Get your finger out
Get your teeth into
Get your tongue round it
Give head
Give him a big hand
Give one's eye teeth for
Give one's right arm for
Given the elbow
Glass chin
Gnash your teeth
Go and boil your head
Go boil your head
Go cap in hand
Go down on bended knee
Go for the throat
Go out on a limb
Go the way of all flesh
Go to your head
Gone tits up
Got it on the brain
Got my eye in
Got my eye on
Got to hand it to you
Got your head screwed on
Got your heart set on
Granny, what big teeth you have got
Grate on the ear
Grease one's palm
Grin from ear to ear
Grit your teeth

 

Hair raising
Hand in glove
Hand in hand
Hand it on a plate
Hand me downs
Hand over fist
Hand picked
Hand to mouth
Hang your head
Harden your heart against
Have a hand in
Have a heart
He makes my flesh creep
He put in his thumb and pulled out a plumb
He wears his heart on his sleeve
Head and shoulders above
Head banger
Head case
Head first
Head honcho
Head in the clouds
Head of hair
Head off
Head off at the pass
Head over heels in love
Head start
Head to head
Heart and soul
Heart of stone
Heart rending
Heart throb
Heart warming
Hell's teeth
Here's mud in your eye
Here's one in your eye
Hit the nail on the head
Hold your tongue
Holding your cards close to your chest
Home is where the heart is
Housemaid's knee
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
I spy with my little eye
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
I'll go to the foot of our stairs
I've got my eye on you
If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
In my heart of hearts
In one ear and out the other
In over your head
In the twinkling of an eye
Is there anybody there?
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
It's no skin off my nose

 

Jog someone's elbow
Jump down my throat
Just a glint in his father's eye
Keep a cool head
Keep a stiff upper lip
Keep a weather eye open
Keep body and soul together
Keep your chin up
Keep your ear to the ground
Keep your eye on the ball
Keep your finger on the pulse
Keep your hair on
Keep your hand in
Keep your head above water
Keep your head down
Keep your nose out of
Keep your nose to the grindstone
Keep your shoulder to the wheel
Kill the fatted calf
Knee high to a duck
Knee high to a grasshopper
Knee jerk reaction
Knee trembler
Knock it on the head
Know by heart
Knuckle down
Knuckle head
Knuckle sandwich
Knuckle under
Lame brain
Laugh your head off
Lead by the nose
Lead with the chin
Learnt off by heart
Leg it
Leg over
Leg up
Lend a helping hand
Lend an ear
Let your hair down
Lie through your teeth
Like a chicken with its head cut off
Long in the tooth
Look death in the eye
Look down your nose
Lose your heart
Loud mouth
Lying through his teeth

 

Near and dear to my heart
Near the knuckle
Neck and crop
Neck and neck
Neither hide nor hair
Nose to tail
Not a dry eye in the house
Nothing succeeds like a parrot with no teeth
Off the top of my head
Off with his head
Off your head
On bended knee
On the back foot
On the one hand
On the other hand
On the tip of my tongue
On your own head be it
One foot in the grave
One in the eye
One toe over the line
Open your big mouth
Out of your head
Out on your ear
Over my dead body
Palm off
Pay lip service to
Pay through the nose
Paying an arm and a leg
Petrol head
Pig's ear
Play by ear
Pound of flesh
Pressing the flesh
Pull your finger out
Pull your hair out
Put words into someone's mouth
Put your best foot forward
Put your foot down
Put your foot in it
Put your foot in your mouth
Put your head into the lion's mouth
Put your head on the block
Put your money where your mouth is
Put your nose out of joint
Roll off the tongue
Rub someone's nose in it
Rub your nose in it
Rule of thumb
Rule with an iron fist

 

Scared stiff
Seeing eye to eye
Set foot in
Set your heart on something
Set your teeth on edge
Shake a leg
Sharp tongue
Shift your arse
Shoot your mouth off
Shoot yourself in the foot
Shove it down someone's throat
Sick to the stomach
Sink your teeth into it
Skeleton in the cupboard
Sleight of hand
Slip of the tongue
Smart arse
Smiling from ear to ear
Snap someone's head off
Sob your heart out
Soft in the head
Stand it on its head
Stick your neck out
Sticks in your throat
Sticks out like a sore thumb
Straight from the horse's mouth
Strong in the arm and thick in the head
Take it on the chin
Take the bit between your teeth
Take the words out of my mouth
Take your hand in marriage
Talking over your head
Tear your hair out
The apple of his eye
The business at hand
The hand is quicker than the eye
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
The head of the family
The heart has its reasons
The long arm of the law
The moving finger writes
The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
The shoe's on the other foot
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
The sun is over the yard arm
The way of all flesh
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach
The whip hand
There's many a slip twixt cup and lip
This neck of the woods
Thumb your nose
Thumbnail sketch
Toe the line
Tongue in cheek
Tooth and nail
Try your hand
Turn a blind eye
Turn the other cheek
Turn up your nose
Twist around your little finger
Twist your arm
Under my thumb
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
Up in arms
Up to your neck in trouble
Van Gogh's ear for music
Warms the cockles of my heart
Wash your mouth out with soap and water
Wear your heart on your sleeve
White man speak with forked tongue
With a jaundiced eye
Without a leg to stand on
Word of mouth
Wrapped around your little finger
You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear
You're pulling my leg
Young at heart
Your eyes are bigger than your stomach