keep body and soul together

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keep body and soul together (third-person singular simple present keeps body and soul together, present participle keeping body and soul together, simple past and past participle kept body and soul together)

  1. Of a person: to survive; to continue living.
    How did you keep body and soul together before you got your first paying job as an actor?
    • 1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five  (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 142:
      Trout lives in a rented basement in Ilium, about two miles from Billy’s nice white home. He himself has no idea how many novels he has written—possibly seventy-five of the things. Not one of them has made money. So Trout keeps body and soul together as a circulation man for the Ilium Gazette, manages newspaper delivery boys, bullies and flatters and cheats little kids.

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