Hairy cheeky bloody leggy handy nosey hearty skinny heady chesty

1. Hearty congratulations on your success!

2. The boy was so leggy that the coacher’s decision was made at once.

3. That sounds like a rather chesty cough you've got.

4. The shops are quite handy - only two minutes' walk.

5. No, you can't borrow my girlfriend for the evening! Don't be so cheeky!

6. It's nothing to do with you what we're doing tonight! Don't be so nosey!

7. She's so skinny that when she turns sideways, she's almost invisible!

8. Did you know he's got a hairy chest? Like a doormat, it is!

9. I reckon you'd have to be a bloody fool to want to learn this stupid language!

10. I feel quite heady after getting all those right. Or perhaps it's the champagne.

TASK 18. Some common adjectives are formed from parts of the body. For example, heart gives us warm-hearted, kind-hearted, hard-hearted etc. Look at the list of similar compound adjectives below and guess what they mean. Then decide which of them can be used to complete sentences below.

1. left-handed

2. double-breasted

3. narrow-waisted

4. cold-blooded

5. big-headed

6. pot-bellied

7. red-faced

8. round-shouldered

9. sour-faced

10. cross-eyed

11. knock-kneed

12. slim-hipped

13. light-fingered

14. strong-willed

15. bow-legged

16. empty-handed

17. dark-skinned

18. fair-haired

19. broad-minded

20. right-footed

1. My boss is terribly knock-kneed walking around as if he were holding his salary cheque between his knees. His wife's quite the opposite – she is as bow-legged as if she had just got off a horse.

2. I used to wear double-breasted suits until I decided that one button was far more suitable for pot-bellied people such as myself.

3. My sister is so round-shouldered and narrow-waisted that she reminds me of one of those long thin wine bottles.

4. Olaf is Scandinavian, so he's fair-haired and slim-hipped, and looks far better in jeans than I do.

5. It looked as if Manchester United were going to return home empty-handed until Bradfield scored with an incredibly powerful right-footed shot from outside the penalty area.

6. Off we go on holiday with visions of returning dark-skinned and beautiful, forgetting that we always come back red-faced and with peeling backs.

7. Hoskins, if you go on staring at that magazine any longer, you'll go cross-eyed. Now either be strong-willed, dear boy, and put it away or give it to me until the end of the lesson.

8. My boss is so sour-faced always looking as if he knew tomorrow was going to be the end of the world. And his wife is so light-fingered that I have to keep a careful eye on my things when they come round to the house, or they just disappear.

9. Most left-handed tennis players seem to win more easily against right-handers. Talking of tennis players, aren't those professionals a big-headed bunch, shouting all the time about how great they are?

10. A lot of liberal broadminded people find it difficult to accept that there is such a thing as cold-blooded murder.