body = 'a human being as capable of feeling physical pain'

[W Brewer]

(1) <<Gin a body meet a body / Comin thro' the rye>>.  (Recall Gary Larson
cartoon, two hospital attendants pushing gurneys through a rye field ...)
(2) <<Just find me two more warm bodies to make a class ...>>

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