Could you help me with this phrase pls
I wonder if anyone knows this phrase "Body snatchers" means. I found this in a novel. The whole paragraph is:
"“Look” John said, “that’s why all the crowds.”
He was pointing at a billboard welcoming delegates to the UN peace conference, which was starting on Monday. There were going to be ten thousand visitors in town. T.J. gazed up at the billboard – blacks and whites and Asians, waiving and smiling. There was something wrong about the artwork, though. The proportions and the colors were off. And the faces all seemed patsy.
John muttered “Body snatchers.”"

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It's an allusion to a sci-fi/horror movie called "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."

In the movie, aliens came to earth and replaced people by making copies of them.  The copies were almost like humans, but were a bit wrong - and real people noticed that the aliens were almost the same as, but slightly different than real people.

In your book, John is saying that the picture he sees reminds him of that movie.  The people on the billboard look almost (but not quite like) real people, the same way that the Body Snatchers do in the movie.

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Hi, I don't know about other countries, but body snatchers were certainly a problem in Britain, I think around the 18th and 19th century.  Body snatchers are famous for digging up recently buried corpses to sell to anatomists at medical schools. A grisly business!  I don't know why they were known as 'snatchers' rather than 'takers' - maybe because to snatch is a bit rough and not very polite!

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