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Phrase(s): flesh and blood
1. Lit. a living human body, especially with reference to its natural limitations; a human being. • This cold weather is more than flesh and blood can stand. • Carrying 300 pounds is beyond mere flesh and blood. 2. Fig. the quality of being alive. • The paintings of this artist are lifeless. They lack flesh and blood. • This play needs flesh and blood, not the mumbling of intensely dull actors. 3. and own flesh and blood Fig. one’s own relatives; one’s own kin. • That’s no way to treat one’s own flesh and blood. • I want to leave my money to my own flesh and blood.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs