body and soul

Fully; totally. When I met my husband, I just knew, body and soul, that we would end up together—there was not a doubt in my mind. She stayed at the office until one in the morning because she believes in this cause body and soul.See also: and, body, soul

body and soul

COMMON You use body and soul to say that you believe strongly in something and are using all your effort to do it or support it. They worked body and soul to make this day a success. She was now committed to the band, body and soul.See also: and, body, soul

body and soul

involving every aspect of a person; completely.See also: and, body, soul

body and ˈsoul

physically and mentally; completely: She devoted herself body and soul to this political cause. ♢ The company doesn’t own me body and soul just because it pays my salary.See also: and, body, soul

body and soul

A duality that has been accepted, largely without question, since the earliest times. The term soul is, however, indefinable in scientific terms but is taken to be an entity associated with the body but clearly distinguished from it. Various accounts of the properties of the soul have been asserted from time to time by theologians, but such assertions are not of a nature as can be verified.

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adv with complete faith

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