touch wood

common touch

The personal quality of showing understanding of and sympathy for the concerns of ordinary people; rapport with and acceptance by ordinary people, usually in a celebrity or leader.

give someone wood

To cause someone to have an erection, usually due to sexual arousal.

golden touch

Synonym of Midas touch (“the ability to achieve financial reward (or, more generally, success) easily and consistently”).

human touch

The ability of a person to deal with others in a personable and empathetic way.

kick into touch

To evade an issue; to stop from happening.

knock on wood

To take a customary action to ward off some misfortune that is believed to be attracted by a presumptuous statement.

lay the wood

to deliver a strong, powerful hit or play

lose one's touch

To lose one's special mastery of or knack for a particular skill or activity.