meet/see (someone) in the flesh

to meet or see someone yourself, instead of watching them in a film or on television, etc..

I knew his face so well from the photographs that it felt a bit strange when I finally saw him in the flesh.

• a shrinking violet
• aside from
• aside from something
• a siege mentality
• as if own the place
• as if you own the place
• a sight for sore eyes
• a significant other
• a sign of the times
• a sine qua non
• a sinking feeling
• a sinking ship
• a sin tax
• as it comes
• as it stands
• a sitting duck
• a skeleton in closet
• a skeleton in cupboard
• a skeleton in someone's closet
• a skeleton in the closet
• a skeleton in the cupboard
• a skeleton in your cupboard
• ask for
• ask for a rain check
• ask for it