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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. flesh and blood 1. human Many of the cartoon characters are more popular than their flesh and blood counterparts. 2. if you say that someone is flesh and blood, you mean that they have feelings or faults that are natural because they are human I may be a priest, but I'm not immune to pretty women. I'm only flesh and blood, after all. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Well, give me my flesh and blood lover, and I'll leave all the Sir Herberts and Valentines to you - if you can find them. Creakle as he said this - 'when it rises against me, is not my flesh and blood. To which Joe returned no answer, but with a very ominous shake of the head, resumed his old position, which he would have peacefully preserved until the house shut up at night, but that Mr Cobb, stimulated by the wonder of the company at the young man's presumption, retorted with sundry taunts, which proved too much for flesh and blood to bear. |
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