Keep body and soul together means manage to stay alive with very little money. This answer is correct because the expression has a fixed figurative meaning in English. In an SSC idiom question, students should match the whole phrase with its accepted meaning rather than translate each word separately.

• Classroom example: Keep body and soul together can refer to a situation involving manage to stay alive with very little money.
• Story example: A writer may use Keep body and soul together when describing a situation involving manage to stay alive with very little money.
• Exam example: When a sentence contains Keep body and soul together, choose the meaning “manage to stay alive with very little money.”