Body Idiom Board Game Answers

Instruction Sheet 8 joined at the hip To be very close to someone.

Move around the board, taking it in turns. When a player lands on
9 weak at the knees To feel an emotion so strongly that
a picture, they say the idiom and the meaning. If the player is not
you feel you might fall down.
able to recall the idiom and/or meaning, the other player can offer
a choice of what the answer could be. For example, ‘It’s raining cats 10 butterflies in my A nervous feeling.
and dogs. Does that mean that there is lots of work to do or that it is stomach
raining hard?’ 11 Achilles heel A weakness that could result in a
failure.
1 a head start To be given an advantage over others.
12 find your feet To adjust to a new place/situation.
To start something early.
2 apple of my eye Someone or something that is more 13 foaming at the To be very angry.
cherished than anything else. mouth

3 to keep your eyes To look out for something. 14 to wear your heart To show emotion openly and not hide
peeled on your sleeve how you feel.

4 pain in the neck
5 a weight off your
shoulders
6 a gut feeling
7 my hands are tied
Someone or something that is 15 chip on your To seem angry all the time because
annoying. shoulder you think you have been treated
unfairly or feel you are not as good as
Something you no longer have to
other people.
worry about or have to deal with.
16 to keep an eye on To watch closely or attentively.
An instinctive feeling about
something. 17 a sight for sore eyes Something or someone you are happy
to see.
To be prevented from doing
something. Something that is out of 18 eyes in the back of To sense what is going on even
your power to control. my head though you can’t see it.

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Body Idiom Board Game
keep your
eyes peeled
FINISH

PAIN
butterflies in eyes in the back
apple of my eye pain in the neck my tummy of my head

a head start a weight off

your shoulders WE
AK
RT
STA
OFF OFF a sight for
weak at the knees Achilles heel sore eyes

a gut feeling joined at the hip

START

find your feet to keep an eye on

foaming at
my hands
the mouth
are tied

chip on your
shoulder

to wear your heart

on your sleeve