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I was looking through very old japanese travel blogs and reading comment
sections for practice. I ran into this phrase that I can't look up anywhere.

Here's the full page if context helps.
<http://boniting.com/nappi/2009/10/dallas-world-aquarium.html>.

This is the sentence that got me thinking.

> 体張ってるかいがある

Google translate say it means "I have a physical fitness". I'm sure that's
wrong, though, given how google is. "

"張る" seems to have so many meanings. So I'm not sure what it means if its
attached to "体". Also, what's the function of かい here? Is it related to the
counter 回?
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What does "体張ってるかいがある" mean?
It comes from the expression
[体を張る](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E4%BD%93%E3%82%92%E5%BC%B5%E3%82%8B-467492),
which more or less translates to "[to put one's body on the
line](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/put-lay-sth-on-the-
line)". Both are also used hyperbolically, as in here, where it's used to
indicate that the blogger is doing something that they normally (or that a
normal person) might be reluctant to do in order to provide more interesting
content. The sentence itself means something along the lines of

> 「体{からだ}を張{は}っている甲斐{かい}がある」
>
> "It's worth putting my body on the line for."

[甲斐{かい}](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%94%B2%E6%96%90-456608) denotes "worth
doing something", "worth to do something".

Although I would presume that you already knew this (since you were able to
convert 張ってる to 張る), I will add the following for completeness' sake: the
張って（い）る (as opposed to 張る) indicates that the speaker does this on a regular
basis (/"that the action continues even as we speak", in a sense - you can
find other examples
[here](http://This%20would%20be%20explained%20in%20more%20detail%20\[here\]\[4\],%20for%20example)).
Also, the い in ～って（い）る is often dropped in colloquial usage, as has been done
here, and this is also why the を has been omitted.
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