Why claim that ‘body’ specifically refers to the dead is misleadingA newspaper headline provoked a healthy debate on social media recently. Views on the phrase ‘dead body’ were particularly interesting. SEE ALSO : My Story: Muscular and fabulously feminineDo these examples, by virtue of carrying the word ‘body’, refer to the dead? Only words such as ‘cadaver’, ‘dead body’ and ‘corpse’ refer to the dead unequivocally. Lets now consider the idiom ‘over my dead body’.

Source: Standard Digital February 17, 2019 21:10 UTC