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flesh and blood

Speech parts

1. flesh and blood - Noun

2. flesh and blood - Adjective

3. flesh and blood - Phrase

Meaning

Real; substantial.

Consisting of flesh, blood, and other substances associated with animals or humans.

A human body; a person generally.

One's family, or member of 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?)

(UK, slang, obsolete) A mixture of brandy and port in equal quantities.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe. Lee Strasberg

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood. Albert Einstein

For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good. John Dryden

We are all flesh and blood of the earth and so will return to the ground as rotten maggot encrusted relics. Togolese Proverb

We are all flesh and blood. Maltese Proverb

A man should live to prove himself worth of his own flesh and blood. African Proverb

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