VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Keep body and soul together

Meaning:

to be able to pay for your food, clothing and somewhere to live.

Examples:

  • We need to do something, because it is scandalous that people are dying of starvation and thirst, and do not even have anything to keep body and soul together.
  • It is an outrage that people who can barely scrape together enough to keep body and soul together should be squeezed to pay back loans to the rich.