Both answers are correct. There are people I know who barely go more than a sentence without using some kind of idiom. It is less common in formal writing, and stylistically you see those phrases surrounded by quotation marks in what we idiomatically call "scare quotes" (like that) these days in the US as a way of making it perfectly clear that it wasn't the speaker's choice of words.
(P.S. it's head over heels, the back bottom part of your feat, not "heal" or "heals")