warm body
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- noun
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- On a cold winter night, there's nothing better than snuggling up to a warm body for comfort.
- press his warm body
- feel a warm body
- tuck in a warm body
Already chubby and quivering with wetness, she gasps for air and for her mother's warm body.
- Already chubby and quivering with wetness, she gasps for air and for her mother's warm body.
Examples
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But a warm body gives the police a head start.
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You don't get a warm body to lay next to every night, someone to have kids with.
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Feel a warm body next to me?
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You need nine warm bodies.
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When she got under the covers, I rolled in close to her warm body.
Fiction book (2002) -
I laid my head on her breast and felt her whole warm body, stately and safe.
Fiction book (1999) -
Schulz's warm body snuggled in next to mine.
Fiction book (1993) -
They just need a warm body to say yay or nay.
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And it didn’t matter who, just as long as it was a warm body.
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I cradled Masayuki's still-warm body against me and I was filled with remorse.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines the literal meanings of 'warm' (comfortably high temperature) and 'body' (a person or animal), so 'a warm body' is directly interpretable as a person whose body is warm and provides physical warmth or comfort. This compositional, literal reading is common cross-linguistically and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The noun warm body comes from the simple picture of a living body that is warm, like a person or pet lying close to you on a cold night. So it means 'a person or animal who gives heat or comfort by being near you'.