Body Parts
shoulder omuz
neck boyun
chest kasa
arm kol; dal
hand el
leg bacak
knee diz
foot ayak
ankle ayak bileği
head başkan
elbow dirsek
back sırt
calves baldır
heel topuk
limb uzuv
eyebrow kaş
eyelash kirpik
wrist bilek
Organs
brain beyin
bladder sidik torbası
kidney böbrek
liver karaciğer
lung akciğer
spine omurga
Verbs and Prasal verbs
break kırma
eye (f.) bakmak
finger ellemek
bleed kanamak
twist dönmek
ache ağrımak
decay çürümek
to head: to hit a ball with your head.
to mounth: forming words with your lips without making any sound.
to nose: to look around or search in order to discover something, especially something that other people do not want you to find.
to have a heart attack: kalp krizi geçirmek.
to have a headache / stomach ache / toothache: baş / karın / diş ağrısı olmak.
to back down: to admit that you were wrong or that you have been defeated. Tükürdüğünü yalamak
to back out: to decide not to do something that you had said you would do. Sözünden dönmek, caymak.
to eye up (sb): to look at someone with sexual interest.
Idioms
A list as long as your arm: a very long list
Give your right arm: to want something very much.
The long arm of the law: the police.
To chance your arm: to take a chance in order to get something that you want.
To cost an arm and a leg: to be very expensive
To twist someone's arm: to persuade someone to do something they do not want to do.
Behind someone's back: to do something without them knowing, in a way which is unfair.
To break your back: to work extremely hard.
To get off someone's back: to tell someone to stop criticizing.
To get someone's back up: to really annoy someone.
To scratch (kaşımak) someone's back: to offer to help someone if they help you.
To stab (bıçaklamak) someone in the back: to do something harmful to someone who trusted you.
To turn your back on something/someone: to refuse to help someone / to stop being involved in something.
Brain drain: the movement of people with education and skills from their own country to another country where they are paid more for their work (beyin göçü).
Have sth on the brain (informal): to not be able to stop thinking or talking about one particular thing
To be all brawn and no brain: to be physically strong but not very intelligent.
To pick someone's brain: to ask for information or advice from someone who knows more about a subject than you do.
To be all ears: to be waiting eagerly to hear about something.
To go in one ear and out the other: if information goes in one ear and out the other, the person who is told it forgets it immediately because they do not listen carefully enough.
To turn the other cheek: near someone, often in order to help them.