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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.
See also: body, keep, soul, together
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Six shillings a week does not keep body and soul together very unitedly.
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
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.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
It was sometimes a hard struggle for us, in bad seasons, to keep body and soul together.
The New Magdalen by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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