Dear friends, I came across some body idioms while reading Twilight, like "roll one's eyes" or "cross one's fingers". Could you please tell me the meanings of these common gestures? Thank you very much!
Libby, from Amoy
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English has lots of body idioms.
Today, Finn and Yang Li explain the idioms roll one's eyes and cross one's fingers, which our listener Libby came across in the Twilight books.
Listen out for these idioms which they mention in the programme:
Frog in your throat
Talk behind my back
Cross your fingers and wish for the best
Roll your eyes
Get our teeth into it
Jump out of your skin
Jump down my throat
Pull your leg
Cross my fingers
Up to our eyeballs
Tongue-tied
Put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into something
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