flesh and blood
noun
1
: corporeal nature as composed of flesh and of blood
2
: near kindred —used chiefly in the phrase one's own flesh and blood
3
: substance, reality
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web And yet, this shadow-Leggatt makes flesh and blood what earlier was a shadow-captain. 
David Bahr, Forbes, 31 July 2022 These people who had become characters in my mind and flesh and blood on camera were living out the worst moments of their lives through subpoenaed text messages. Liz Meriwether, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022 The film the men produced gave the murky myth shape: suddenly, Bigfoot was manifested in flesh and blood. Leah Sottile, Outside Online, 5 July 2016 The vehicle for her message has been her own flesh and blood. Danielle Pergament, Allure, 8 July 2022 Some of that depends on technology, and some depends on flesh and blood humans. William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 8 July 2022 And Elvis himself remains a cipher, a symbol, more myth than flesh and blood. New York Times, 23 June 2022 But the boogeyman in this 1978-set, fiendishly shivery thriller — which Derrickson directed and co-wrote, with C. Robert Cargill, from a short story by Joe Hill, the son of Stephen King — is 100 percent flesh and blood. Michael O'sullivan, Washington Post, 22 June 2022 Her voice is exalted by that reach, the rush of stretching one’s limbs, flesh and blood high. Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022 See More
David Bahr, Forbes, 31 July 2022 These people who had become characters in my mind and flesh and blood on camera were living out the worst moments of their lives through subpoenaed text messages. Liz Meriwether, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022 The film the men produced gave the murky myth shape: suddenly, Bigfoot was manifested in flesh and blood. Leah Sottile, Outside Online, 5 July 2016 The vehicle for her message has been her own flesh and blood. Danielle Pergament, Allure, 8 July 2022 Some of that depends on technology, and some depends on flesh and blood humans. William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 8 July 2022 And Elvis himself remains a cipher, a symbol, more myth than flesh and blood. New York Times, 23 June 2022 But the boogeyman in this 1978-set, fiendishly shivery thriller — which Derrickson directed and co-wrote, with C. Robert Cargill, from a short story by Joe Hill, the son of Stephen King — is 100 percent flesh and blood. Michael O'sullivan, Washington Post, 22 June 2022 Her voice is exalted by that reach, the rush of stretching one’s limbs, flesh and blood high. Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1