body English
Meaning: Subtle body movements a person makes to coax a moving object toward a desired direction, as if willing it through physical effort.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Category: Body & Senses
Origin: From the visual practice of contorting one's body while watching a rolling ball or sliding puck, as if the motion could influence its path.
More idioms — Body & Senses
- all mouth and trousers — Full of loud boasting and empty talk, lacking substance or follow-through.
- turn on one's heel — To suddenly depart or walk away, often in a dramatic or dismissive manner.
- what's eating you — What is bothering or irritating you?
- old flame — A former romantic partner, especially one whose memory still stirs affection.
- at a pinch — In an urgent or difficult situation, when no better alternative is available or when reso…
- swallow one's pride — To set aside one's pride and accept a humbling situation or apology.
More English idioms
- above the salt — Of high social rank, importance, or honor.
- break the bank — To win or spend so much money that a casino or financial institution loses its entire ava…
- break the mold — To abandon convention and do something radically new or different.
- hoist by one's own petard — To be harmed or destroyed by one's own trap or scheme meant to injure someone else.
- sleep with the fishes — To be dead, with one's body disposed of in the ocean or a large body of water.
- Augean stables — An extremely filthy, corrupt, or morally decayed place or situation that seems impossible…
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