Idiom
warm body
Meaning
Any person who is present.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The manager just needs a warm body to help move these boxes.”
“They were so desperate for staff that they hired any warm body who walked through the door.”
“In the rush to complete the project before the deadline, the supervisor accepted any warm body capable of holding a pen.”
Examples
simple
“The manager just needs a warm body to help move these boxes.”
contextual
“They were so desperate for staff that they hired any warm body who walked through the door.”
complex
“In the rush to complete the project before the deadline, the supervisor accepted any warm body capable of holding a pen.”
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