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living soul
Idioms and Phrases
A person. For example, Every living soul in this town has a stake in the decision to ban smoking , or The place was empty—not a living soul to be found . [First half of 1600s]Example Sentences
And the voice and the memory, & the apparently genuine interest in every living soul: fantastic.
George, seeing no living soul, struck the hilt of his sword sharply against the door of the castle.
You perhaps did not know that I too loved your affianced Violet; how long, how deeply I can never utter to any living soul.
Between them not a living soul disturbed the dead stillness of Lonesome Cove.
Not a living soul remained upon the spot save Frank and myself, and Kea and her uncle.
And yet, three years have come and gone,” continued the mate, “and not a living soul has come to us.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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