flesh and blood
English
Adjective
flesh and blood (not comparable)
- Real; substantial.
- 2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ[1]:
- [Minnesota Senator Steve] Daines isn’t the only example of right-wing politicians who wish to wield anti-Semitism as a convenient cudgel against their political enemies, with scant if any evidence. But Montana’s vanishingly small Jewish population makes it particularly clear that this strategy has little to do with flesh-and-blood Jews at all.
- Consisting of flesh, blood, and other substances associated with animals or humans.
Noun
- A human body; a person generally.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 24:
- ...I'll tell you what else is a fact. It's a fact that he is wearing his blue Shetland turtle-neck today. Even as we speak his body is moving inside it. Warm and quick. It's more than flesh and blood can stand.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 24:
- One's family.
- How dare you say such a thing to your own flesh and blood?
- Human nature. (Can we add an example for this sense?)