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keep body and soul together



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Idioms and Phrases

Stay alive, support life, as in He earns barely enough to keep body and soul together . This expression alludes to the belief that the soul gives life to the body, which therefore cannot survive without it. Today it most often is applied to earning a living. [Early 1700s]
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Example Sentences

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Presumably he managed to keep body and soul together before you two started dating, so I don’t think it’s unreasonable to believe that he’d find a way to continue living if you two ever really broke up.

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They were doing the best they could to keep body and soul together.

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"It is designed to keep body and soul together, not designed to pay for fodder," he said.

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“I find it ironic that a governor who wants to cut red tape … is now establishing all this red tape for working poor people and poor people with disabilities and poor people who are struggling to keep body and soul together.”

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For generations of people who came through the Columbia Steak House on North Limestone during the 34 years that Smitty worked there on and off, he was the man with the ready smile, an encouraging word and, sometimes, an on-the-house cheeseburger that helped starving students keep body and soul together when funds were fragile.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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