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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—K

Keep Body and Soul Together

(To). To struggle to maintain life; to continue life. Thus we say, “It is as much as I can do to keep body and soul together;” and “To keep body and soul together” we did so and so.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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