flesh and blood
flesh and blood • n. used to emphasize that a person is a physical, living being with human emotions or frailties, often in contrast to something abstract, spiritual, or mechanical: the customer is flesh and blood, not just a sales statistic| [as adj.] he seemed more like a creature from a dream than a flesh-and-blood father. PHRASES: one's (own) flesh and blood a near relative or one's close family: he felt as much for that girl as if she had been his own flesh and blood.
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