flesh and blood
flesh and blood
Definition
flesh and blood
noun
the human body, esp. as subject to its natural limitations
one's (own) flesh and blood
one's close relatives
flesh-and-blood
Definition
flesh·-and-blood (fles̸h′ən blud′)
adjective
- alive; living
- real; actual; true
- actually present; in person
flesh-and-blood
Usage Examples
Adjective modifier
- real: This is to be welcomed because it finally recognizes that real flesh-and-blood human beings are responsible for corporate conduct.
Modifies a noun
- god: Might the exploded planet gods be symbolic for the flesh-and-blood gods as well as the other way round?
- person: In summary, Nimrod was not a historical figure and was not a flesh-and-blood person.
- human: The central truth of Christianity is Christ: a real, personal flesh-and-blood human who is also God.
- people: Her concern for clients as flesh-and-blood people leads her to worry about their happiness, not just their freedom.
- being: Sitchin left few stones unturned, and achieved a virtual monopoly in the study of the gods as real, historical, flesh-and-blood beings.
- extraterrestrial: On the contrary, I began to realize that the ancient Egyptian gods were not flesh-and-blood extraterrestrials at all.
Browse dictionary entries near flesh and blood
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