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Flesh and blood

adj, noun, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Consisting of flesh, blood, and other substances associated with animals or humans. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Real; substantial. figuratively, not-comparable

    "[Minnesota Senator Steve] Daines isn’t the only example of right-wing politicians who wish to wield anti-Semitism as a convenient cudgel against their political enemies, with scant if any evidence. But Montana’s vanishingly small Jewish population makes it particularly clear that this strategy has little to do with flesh-and-blood Jews at all."

Noun
  1. 1
    A human body; a person generally. uncountable

    "[…] I'll tell you what else is a fact. It's a fact that he is wearing his blue Shetland turtle-neck today. Even as we speak his body is moving inside it. Warm and quick. It's more than flesh and blood can stand."

  2. 2
    One's family, or member of one's family. uncountable

    "How dare you say such a thing to your own flesh and blood?"

  3. 3
    Human nature. uncountable
  4. 4
    A mixture of brandy and port in equal quantities. Ireland, UK, obsolete, slang, uncountable

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