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# Waist and Back

## Expressions with waist

* **strip to the waist**
* put your arms round (his) waist
* wrap (a towel) round your waist
* (your hair) reaches to your waist

## Expressions with back

* hurt your back
* lie on your back
* **pat** someone on the back
* a sore / bad back

## Exercise

### Expressions with waist

1. While we were dancing, he ***put*** his arms round my waist and kissed me on the cheek.
2. I got out of the bath and ***wrapped*** a towel round my waist to see who was at the door.
3. Our teacher's got incredibly long hair. It ***reaches*** down to her waist!
4. At boarding school we had to ***strip*** to the waist and wash ourselves in cold bathrooms.

### Expressions with back

1. I love getting my back rubbed. It's so relaxing. - d
2. My back is sore after all that heavy work in the garden! - c
3. We lay on our backs in the sun gazing up at the sky. - e
4. I hurt my back while I was lifting some furniture. - a
5. He's been off work for over a month now with a *bad back*. - b