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flesh and blood Definition

flesh and blood

noun

the human body, esp. as subject to its natural limitations

flesh and blood Idioms

one's (own) flesh and blood

one's close relatives

flesh-and-blood Definition

flesh·-and-blood (fles̸hən blud)

adjective

  1. alive; living
  2. real; actual; true
  3. 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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  2. flense
  3. Flemish
  4. Fleming
  5. fleetness
  6. fleeting
  7. Fleet Street
  8. fleet admiral
  9. fleet
  10. fleer
  1. flesh-colored
  2. flesh-eating
  3. flesh fly
  4. flesh meat
  5. flesh wound
  6. fleshiness
  7. fleshings
  8. fleshly
  9. fleshpot
  10. fleshy