BODY AND SOUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does body and soul mean? 

• BODY AND SOUL (adverb)
  The adverb BODY AND SOUL has 1 sense:

1. with complete faith

  Familiarity information: BODY AND SOUL used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BODY AND SOUL (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With complete faith

Synonyms:

body and soul; heart and soul

Context example:

she was with him heart and soul

 Context examples 

Not for nothing had he surrendered himself body and soul to Grey Beaver.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The crew are his, body and soul. He could buy ’em at so much a gross with a cash discount, and he did it before ever they signed on.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For five days this cruel imprisonment continued, with hardly enough food to hold body and soul together.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And so he dragged himself to the Enquirer alley, sick in body and soul, but learning the long patience, to confront his eternal enemy, Cheese- Face, who was just as sick as he, and just a bit willing to quit if it were not for the gang of newsboys that looked on and made pride painful and necessary.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This poor mother, all unknowing, and all for the best as she think, does such thing as lose her daughter body and soul; and we must not tell her, we must not even warn her, or she die, and then both die.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

For Sarah Cushing loved me—that’s the root of the business—she loved me until all her love turned to poisonous hate when she knew that I thought more of my wife’s footmark in the mud than I did of her whole body and soul.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At last he lay at the master's feet, into whose possession he now surrendered himself, voluntarily, body and soul.

(White Fang, by Jack London)