not a living soul

not a living soul

Not a single person. Don't worry, I'll make sure he doesn't tell a living soul about what he saw. As we entered the town, there wasn't a living soul on the streets, and the whole place was eerily silent.

See also: living, not, soul

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not a living soul

Fig. nobody. (See some of the possible variations in the examples.) I won't tell anybody—not a living soul. I won't tell a living soul.

See also: living, not, soul

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

not a living soul

People say not a living soul to mean nobody at all. You must tell no-one. Not a living soul! No, she told herself, he would not have told his suspicions to a living soul.

See also: living, not, soul

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