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keep body and soul together |
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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. 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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Six shillings a week does not keep body and soul together very unitedly. There was the girls and their mothers a working at their sewing, or their shoe-binding, or their trimming, or their waistcoat making, day and night and night and day, and not more than able to keep body and soul together after all--often not so much. It was sometimes a hard struggle for us, in bad seasons, to keep body and soul together. |
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