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See: KEEP BODY AND SOUL TOGETHER.

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keep body and soul together

[keep body and soul together] {v. phr.} To keep alive; survive. * /John was unemployed most of the year and hardly made enough money to keep body and soul together./ […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[body English] {n.}, {informal} The wishful attempt to make a ball move in the right direction after it has been hit or let go, by twisting the body in the […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

over one's dead body

[over one's dead body] {adv. phr.}, {informal} Not having the ability to stop something undesirable from taking place. * /"You will get married at age sixteen over my dead body!" […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[body blow] {n.}, {informal} A great disappointment; a bitter failure. * /When he failed to get on the team it came as a body blow to him./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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