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that causes one to put saliva on one’s eyebrows: a fake (Japanese)
To put saliva on one’s eyebrows: to take with a grain of salt (Japanese)
To open knitted brows: to breathe freely again (Japanese)
Hit not the eyebrow but right in the eye: hit the nail on the head (Russian)
To make one’s eyebrows cloudy: to be concerned (Japanese)
To burn one’s eyebrows: to study hard (Spanish)
The curtains: the eyelids (Spanish, Cuba)
To throw powder in your eyes: to kid yourself (French)
To lick eye: to kiss up (Spanish, Puerto Rico)
To be a piece of meat with eyes: to be useless (Spanish, Dominican Republic)
Eyes without pupils: look but not see (Chinese)
To change one’s eye color: to have a serious look (Japanese)
While one’s eyes are still black: while alive (Japanese)
To get one’s eyes stolen: to be dazzled (Japanese)
To lower the outside corners of one’s eyes: to be pleased (Japanese)
To make the outside corners of one’s eyes stand up: to nitpick (Japanese)
To look at someone with white eyes: to look at someone disdainfully (Japanese)
To bring four eyes together: to meet the glance (Hindi)
Poison for one’s eyes: too much of a temptation (Japanese)
To throw an eye at: to guard, to mind (Yiddish)
EARS
To lower the ears: to give in, in a dispute (Spanish)
To flatten the ear: to sleep (Spanish, Mexico)
To iron one’s ear: to go to sleep (Spanish)
To have fallen ears: to be crestfallen (Spanish)
Water into the ear of someone sleeping: a shock (Japanese)
Ear-nectar: a sweet voice or sound (Hindi)
Hearing test: call with nothing to say (Russian)
I’m not hanging noodles on your ears: I’m not pulling your leg (Russian)
To warm somebody’s ear: to chastise (French)
Like a Volkswagen with doors open: having big ears (Spanish)
NOSE
A fly on the nose: a chip on the shoulder (Italian)
Soldering iron: a big nose (French)
He doesn’t wipe his nose with his foot: he has ideas above his station (French)
Like a lung and liver on my nose: like a hole in the head (Yiddish)
To break someone’s nose: to discourage (Japanese)
To hang something on one’s nose: to be vain (Japanese)
I’m not hanging noodles on your ears
Russian: I’m not pulling your leg
To speak through the nose: to sweet talk (Japanese)
To speak through the nose: to double talk (Yiddish)
A wax-nose: one who changes opinions easily (Hindi)
To make one’s own nose taller: to boast (Japanese)
Bring one’s nose against someone’s: face to face (Japanese)
To make nose medicine effective: to bribe (Japanese)
Earn oneself a golden nose: make a lot of money (German)
Having the nose cut off: to be in disgrace (Hindi)
To take off the nose ring: to become a widow (Hindi)
A hair of the nose: respected, honored (Hindi)
To keep one’s nose: to keep one’s honor (Hindi)
Move the wings of one’s nose incessantly: have a swelled head (Japanese)
With eyes and nose attached: almost complete (Japanese)
The line of the nose: straight as an arrow (Hindi)
You got your nose burned: you had your leg pulled (Persian)
To pull the worms out of the nose: to tell all (German)
To pull the hair out of someone’s nostrils: to dupe someone (Japanese)
MOUTH & TEETH
At the flower of the lip: on the tip of the tongue (Spanish, Latin America)
Three inches of a tongue: glib tongue, sweet talk (Japanese)
A cat’s tongue: to be sensitive to heat (Japanese)
To use two tongues: to tell a lie (Japanese)
Have a well-hung tongue: to be eloquent (French)
Long tongue: says too much (Spanish)
Long-tongued: impudent, abusive (Hindi)
Box of lies: the mouth (French)
Have potatoes in the mouth: speak unclearly (Spanish, Chile)
Honey-mouthed and dagger-hearted: hypocritical (Chinese)
To produce wind at the corners of one’s mouth: to be eloquent (Chinese)
To have a hard tooth: to have a sharp tongue (French)
To loosen one’s teeth: something that’s nauseating (Japanese)
To not put clothes on one’s teeth: to tell it like it is (Japanese)
One’s teeth itch: one feels important (Japanese)
Itchy
To put saliva on one’s eyebrows: to take with a grain of salt (Japanese)
To open knitted brows: to breathe freely again (Japanese)
Hit not the eyebrow but right in the eye: hit the nail on the head (Russian)
To make one’s eyebrows cloudy: to be concerned (Japanese)
To burn one’s eyebrows: to study hard (Spanish)
The curtains: the eyelids (Spanish, Cuba)
To throw powder in your eyes: to kid yourself (French)
To lick eye: to kiss up (Spanish, Puerto Rico)
To be a piece of meat with eyes: to be useless (Spanish, Dominican Republic)
Eyes without pupils: look but not see (Chinese)
To change one’s eye color: to have a serious look (Japanese)
While one’s eyes are still black: while alive (Japanese)
To get one’s eyes stolen: to be dazzled (Japanese)
To lower the outside corners of one’s eyes: to be pleased (Japanese)
To make the outside corners of one’s eyes stand up: to nitpick (Japanese)
To look at someone with white eyes: to look at someone disdainfully (Japanese)
To bring four eyes together: to meet the glance (Hindi)
Poison for one’s eyes: too much of a temptation (Japanese)
To throw an eye at: to guard, to mind (Yiddish)
EARS
To lower the ears: to give in, in a dispute (Spanish)
To flatten the ear: to sleep (Spanish, Mexico)
To iron one’s ear: to go to sleep (Spanish)
To have fallen ears: to be crestfallen (Spanish)
Water into the ear of someone sleeping: a shock (Japanese)
Ear-nectar: a sweet voice or sound (Hindi)
Hearing test: call with nothing to say (Russian)
I’m not hanging noodles on your ears: I’m not pulling your leg (Russian)
To warm somebody’s ear: to chastise (French)
Like a Volkswagen with doors open: having big ears (Spanish)
NOSE
A fly on the nose: a chip on the shoulder (Italian)
Soldering iron: a big nose (French)
He doesn’t wipe his nose with his foot: he has ideas above his station (French)
Like a lung and liver on my nose: like a hole in the head (Yiddish)
To break someone’s nose: to discourage (Japanese)
To hang something on one’s nose: to be vain (Japanese)
I’m not hanging noodles on your ears
Russian: I’m not pulling your leg
To speak through the nose: to sweet talk (Japanese)
To speak through the nose: to double talk (Yiddish)
A wax-nose: one who changes opinions easily (Hindi)
To make one’s own nose taller: to boast (Japanese)
Bring one’s nose against someone’s: face to face (Japanese)
To make nose medicine effective: to bribe (Japanese)
Earn oneself a golden nose: make a lot of money (German)
Having the nose cut off: to be in disgrace (Hindi)
To take off the nose ring: to become a widow (Hindi)
A hair of the nose: respected, honored (Hindi)
To keep one’s nose: to keep one’s honor (Hindi)
Move the wings of one’s nose incessantly: have a swelled head (Japanese)
With eyes and nose attached: almost complete (Japanese)
The line of the nose: straight as an arrow (Hindi)
You got your nose burned: you had your leg pulled (Persian)
To pull the worms out of the nose: to tell all (German)
To pull the hair out of someone’s nostrils: to dupe someone (Japanese)
MOUTH & TEETH
At the flower of the lip: on the tip of the tongue (Spanish, Latin America)
Three inches of a tongue: glib tongue, sweet talk (Japanese)
A cat’s tongue: to be sensitive to heat (Japanese)
To use two tongues: to tell a lie (Japanese)
Have a well-hung tongue: to be eloquent (French)
Long tongue: says too much (Spanish)
Long-tongued: impudent, abusive (Hindi)
Box of lies: the mouth (French)
Have potatoes in the mouth: speak unclearly (Spanish, Chile)
Honey-mouthed and dagger-hearted: hypocritical (Chinese)
To produce wind at the corners of one’s mouth: to be eloquent (Chinese)
To have a hard tooth: to have a sharp tongue (French)
To loosen one’s teeth: something that’s nauseating (Japanese)
To not put clothes on one’s teeth: to tell it like it is (Japanese)
One’s teeth itch: one feels important (Japanese)
Itchy
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