warm body

plural warm bodies

1. idiomaticAny person who is present.

   Why just hire a warm body, when you can hire for loyalty?.

   2013 May 30, “Five Tips to Hire for Loyalty, Not Just a Warm Body”, in HR News Daily

   1 more example

   So when leaders keep around C players (or the warm bodies), the result is almost always worse than having nobody for a short period of time.

   2014 September 12, Jim Alampi, “How a Warm Body Sometimes Can Be Worse Than Nobody at All”, in Entrepreneur

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see warm, body.

   Synonyms: bums in seats