Read the following sentences and fill in the missing “parts of the body“ from the box tongue teeth heart face skeleton hair teeth cheek blood flesh bone face neck nose skin foot Show me somebody with no _s in their cupboard, and I’ll show you a skilful liar The police are underpaid and underequipped while the criminals are armed to the _ Most farmers have bank managers breathing down their _s, so everything has to have an economic reason He survived the accident by the _ of his _ Now that he was _ to _ with the inspector, the burgler found it difficult to explain his action I could see nobody But they could see me It made my _ crawl They were watching I think people are taking all this more seriously than we intented It was supposed to be _ in _ The young driver will have to _ the bill for the damage to both cars The situation has reached crisis point because of the bad _ between the two 10 She admits that when she saw the flat Jeremy had set his _ on, her first reaction was surprise 11 There is more to life than keeping one’s to the grindstone and saving for a rainy day 12 The hard fact is that they have got us by the short _s We can’t anything without material support from them 13 I have a _ to pick with you Let’s talk it over now Key: skeleton (to have a skeleton in the cupboard/closet) teeth (armed to the teeth) necks (to breathe down someone’s neck) skin, teeth (to sth By the skin of your teeth) face to face flesh (to make somebody’s flesh creep or crawl, to make somebody’s skin crawl) tongue, cheek (sth Is said or written tongue in cheek) foot (to have to foot the bill) blood (there is a bad blood between two people/groups) 10 heart (to set your heart on sth.) 11 nose (to keep one’s nose to the grindstone) 12 hairs (to have somebody by the short hairs) 13 bone (to have a bone to pick with someone)