keep body and soul together

Fig. to manage to keep existing, especially when one has very little money. (Compare this with keep the wolf from the door.) We hardly had enough to keep body and soul together. I don't earn enough money to keep body and soul together.

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keep body and soul together

to just be able to pay for the things that you need in order to live We can barely keep body and soul together on what he earns.

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keep body and soul together

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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Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Azazel	-	Biblical
Sedna	-	Mythology
Brad	BRAD	English
Yarognev	-	Medieval Slavic
Aleix	ə-LESH	Catalan
NarcÍS	-	Catalan