Here you can find five expressions with body parts, and their meaning joined by examples:
To have got cold feet → abandom something due to anxiety or apprehension or doubt strong enough to prevent a planned course of action.
ex. I got cold feet when I learned the trip involves white-water rafting.
To give one's right arm→ be prepared to make a great sacrifice in order to do something.
ex. He would give his right arm to have a new house.
To live off the back of someone→ to exploit the labor of someone else to support one's own existence.
ex. This area has been living off the backs of migrant workers for years.
To close/shut one's ears to something→ refuse to listen to bad or unpleasant news.
ex. Please, listen to him, don't shut your ears to his warning!
To twisted someone round one's little finger→ have someone under one's influence.
ex. She can twist him round his little finger, so she will convince him to go to the party.
Next, you can click below in order to be informed about some inversion explanation:
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/inversion.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K0npnSYjJE
During this week, what I have done to improve my English skills is to read the novel for the literature course and also last Sunday I started to watch a series in its original version, which is "Peaky Blinders."
Student: María Martínez Madrid 2º GEI
To have got cold feet → abandom something due to anxiety or apprehension or doubt strong enough to prevent a planned course of action.
ex. I got cold feet when I learned the trip involves white-water rafting.
To give one's right arm→ be prepared to make a great sacrifice in order to do something.
ex. He would give his right arm to have a new house.
To live off the back of someone→ to exploit the labor of someone else to support one's own existence.
ex. This area has been living off the backs of migrant workers for years.
To close/shut one's ears to something→ refuse to listen to bad or unpleasant news.
ex. Please, listen to him, don't shut your ears to his warning!
To twisted someone round one's little finger→ have someone under one's influence.
ex. She can twist him round his little finger, so she will convince him to go to the party.
Next, you can click below in order to be informed about some inversion explanation:
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/inversion.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K0npnSYjJE
During this week, what I have done to improve my English skills is to read the novel for the literature course and also last Sunday I started to watch a series in its original version, which is "Peaky Blinders."
Student: María Martínez Madrid 2º GEI
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