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A human insurance policy who hopes every day proves the premium was wasted.
means A person employed to physically protect someone from harm, usually by staying close, watching everything, and standing between them and trouble.
from Straightforward compound of 'body' plus 'guard' — guard itself comes through French 'garder,' from a Germanic root meaning to watch or heed. The phrase solidified in English as a literal job title: someone assigned to guard a specific body, especially a ruler's or VIP's, rather than a place or object.
- job paradox
- success means nothing ever happens
- real skill
- spotting trouble before it spots you
- not movies
- mostly logistics, not fistfights
- best outcome
- total, boring anticlimax