flesh and blood

(one's) (own) flesh and blood

One's family member(s). You're my own flesh and blood—how you could you steal my story idea? She's our flesh and blood, so let's all try to get along with her while she's in town.

See also: and, blood, flesh

be flesh and blood

1. To have human flaws and thus be imperfect. I know you idolize me, but I'm flesh and blood, just like you—I make mistakes too.

2. To be one's relative(s). In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "be" and "flesh." Also seen as "be (one's) own flesh and blood." You're my own flesh and blood—how could you spill my secrets to the tabloids? She's our flesh and blood, so let's all try to get along with her while she's in town.

See also: and, blood, flesh

flesh and blood

1. The human body (and the limitations thereof). We need to get a crane to move this slab—it's too heavy for mere flesh and blood to handle.

2. Describing an actual, living person. It's hard to think of these relatives that I've never met as flesh and blood people.

3. One's relative(s). In this usage, "own" can be used before "flesh." You're my own flesh and blood—how could you spill my secrets to the tabloids? She's our flesh and blood, so let's all try to get along with her while she's in town.

4. An entity possessing life-like qualities. A skilled writer can take wooden characters and turn them into flesh and blood.

5. Human, and therefore flawed and imperfect. I know you idolize me, but I'm flesh and blood, just like you—I make mistakes too.

See also: and, blood, flesh

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

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.

See also: and, blood, flesh

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

flesh and blood

1. Human beings, especially with respect to their failings or weaknesses. For example, I can't do everything-I'm only flesh and blood. [c. 1600]

2. one's own flesh and blood. One's blood relatives, kin, as in She can't cut her own flesh and blood out of her will. [c. 1300]

See also: and, blood, flesh

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

flesh and blood

COMMON

1. If someone is your own flesh and blood, they are a member of your family. The kid, after all, was his own flesh and blood. He deserved a second chance. You can't just let your own flesh and blood go to prison if there's any way you can help.

2. If you say that someone is flesh and blood, you mean that they have human feelings or weaknesses, and that they are not perfect. I'm flesh and blood like everyone else and I, too, can be damaged. We priests are mere flesh and blood. In fact we're often even weaker than others.

3. If you describe someone as a flesh and blood person, you mean that they are real and actually exist. His absence ever since her second birthday made her think of him as a picture rather than a flesh and blood father.

See also: and, blood, flesh

Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

ˌflesh and ˈblood

the human body; a normal person with weaknesses, desires, fears, etc: ‘Why did he do it?’ ‘Look, he’d been away from home for six months and he was lonely. He’s only flesh and blood, you know.’

See also: and, blood, flesh

Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

See also:

(one's) (own) flesh and blood
your flesh and blood
after (one's) blood
after your blood
bleed out
be after (one's) blood
be after/out for somebody's blood
piss blood
in (one's) blood
in blood

References in periodicals archive

If your flesh and blood commits these shameful acts of daylight robbery what do you expect from a stranger?

Point of principle

But hermeneutical theory suggests that all communication - even that labeled "historical" or "flesh and blood" - is occluded to some extent by fundamental preunderstandings of which the interpreter is unaware.

Reclaiming women's experience: a reading of selected Christian feminist theologies

For as Christians and Catholics we gather often around a table as one family: old and young, rich and poor, having made our way from a hundred different points to a table united in our hunger and thirst for the God who comes to us in the flesh and blood. And God, it appears, is very comfortable living among us and dining with us and sharing the stories of our lives.

Bread everlasting

The short commentary began, "Today's readings invite us to develop a mature faith in the flesh and blood presence of Christ." However, the author did not discuss the theology of the Real Presence.

On "Being Eucharist"

In chapters 3 and 4 Luke puts together a series of stories in order to put flesh and blood on the concept of Son of God.

Preaching in a sea of change

A modern British philosopher, Gilbert Ryle, has called the soul "the ghost in the machine." That oft quoted phrase means, according to the philosopher, that no matter how closely one inspects a person, there is only flesh and blood. In other words, the machine, which is the body, seems to work quite nicely without insisting that there is a ghost that makes it run.

What would you be without your body?

Here is a Virgin mother who is a real, flesh and blood woman, behaving as anyone would have expected a mother to do.

Impassioned mother or passive icon: the virgin's role in late medieval and early modern passion sermons

I know everything, or rather, I now discover that I thought I knew: everything changes if those words are translated into images of such power to transform in flesh and blood, striking signs of love and hatred.

A Passion of violence and love

Through his flesh and blood we can come into God's presence again, no longer separated by sin.

Good Friday April 9, 2004

"In this sacrament, sweet Jesus, Thou dost give thy Flesh and Blood, And Thy soul and Godhead also, Yes, dear Jesus, I believe it, And with all my heart, I love Thee, Thou dost give Thy Flesh and Blood, as our own most precious food.

From John P. Maloney re liturgy. (Letters to the Edtitor)

Julia Kim, received Holy Communion under the species of bread and wine which then visibly changed on her tongue into a tiny palpitating heart of flesh and blood.

Christ: real, not symbolic

The Sacred Host received by Julia Kim was changed to living flesh and blood. Fr.

Eucharistic miracle at Naju, South Korea

Within the history of our Catholic Church during the past twenty centuries, there have occurred incidents in which the Flesh and Blood of Jesus hidden under the outward appearances of bread and wine become openly visible and perceptible to the human senses of sight, taste, touch and smell.

Eucharistic miracles

词组	flesh and blood
释义	flesh and blood (one's) (own) flesh and blood One's family member(s). You're my own flesh and blood—how you could you steal my story idea? She's our flesh and blood, so let's all try to get along with her while she's in town. See also: and, blood, flesh be flesh and blood 1. To have human flaws and thus be imperfect. I know you idolize me, but I'm flesh and blood, just like you—I make mistakes too. 2. To be one's relative(s). In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "be" and "flesh." Also seen as "be (one's) own flesh and blood." You're my own flesh and blood—how could you spill my secrets to the tabloids? She's our flesh and blood, so let's all try to get along with her while she's in town. See also: and, blood, flesh flesh and blood 1. The human body (and the limitations thereof). We need to get a crane to move this slab—it's too heavy for mere flesh and blood to handle. 2. Describing an actual, living person. It's hard to think of these relatives that I've never met as flesh and blood people. 3. One's relative(s). In this usage, "own" can be used before "flesh." You're my own flesh and blood—how could you spill my secrets to the tabloids? She's our flesh and blood, so let's all try to get along with her while she's in town. 4. An entity possessing life-like qualities. A skilled writer can take wooden characters and turn them into flesh and blood. 5. Human, and therefore flawed and imperfect. I know you idolize me, but I'm flesh and blood, just like you—I make mistakes too. See also: and, blood, flesh Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. 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. See also: and, blood, flesh McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. flesh and blood 1. Human beings, especially with respect to their failings or weaknesses. For example, I can't do everything-I'm only flesh and blood. [c. 1600] 2. one's own flesh and blood. One's blood relatives, kin, as in She can't cut her own flesh and blood out of her will. [c. 1300] See also: and, blood, flesh The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. flesh and blood COMMON 1. If someone is your own flesh and blood, they are a member of your family. The kid, after all, was his own flesh and blood. He deserved a second chance. You can't just let your own flesh and blood go to prison if there's any way you can help. 2. If you say that someone is flesh and blood, you mean that they have human feelings or weaknesses, and that they are not perfect. I'm flesh and blood like everyone else and I, too, can be damaged. We priests are mere flesh and blood. In fact we're often even weaker than others. 3. If you describe someone as a flesh and blood person, you mean that they are real and actually exist. His absence ever since her second birthday made her think of him as a picture rather than a flesh and blood father. See also: and, blood, flesh Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. ˌflesh and ˈblood the human body; a normal person with weaknesses, desires, fears, etc: ‘Why did he do it?’ ‘Look, he’d been away from home for six months and he was lonely. He’s only flesh and blood, you know.’ See also: and, blood, flesh Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary See also: (one's) (own) flesh and blood your flesh and blood after (one's) blood after your blood bleed out be after (one's) blood be after/out for somebody's blood piss blood in (one's) blood in blood References in periodicals archive If your flesh and blood commits these shameful acts of daylight robbery what do you expect from a stranger? Point of principle But hermeneutical theory suggests that all communication - even that labeled "historical" or "flesh and blood" - is occluded to some extent by fundamental preunderstandings of which the interpreter is unaware. Reclaiming women's experience: a reading of selected Christian feminist theologies For as Christians and Catholics we gather often around a table as one family: old and young, rich and poor, having made our way from a hundred different points to a table united in our hunger and thirst for the God who comes to us in the flesh and blood. And God, it appears, is very comfortable living among us and dining with us and sharing the stories of our lives. Bread everlasting The short commentary began, "Today's readings invite us to develop a mature faith in the flesh and blood presence of Christ." However, the author did not discuss the theology of the Real Presence. On "Being Eucharist" In chapters 3 and 4 Luke puts together a series of stories in order to put flesh and blood on the concept of Son of God. Preaching in a sea of change A modern British philosopher, Gilbert Ryle, has called the soul "the ghost in the machine." That oft quoted phrase means, according to the philosopher, that no matter how closely one inspects a person, there is only flesh and blood. In other words, the machine, which is the body, seems to work quite nicely without insisting that there is a ghost that makes it run. What would you be without your body? Here is a Virgin mother who is a real, flesh and blood woman, behaving as anyone would have expected a mother to do. Impassioned mother or passive icon: the virgin's role in late medieval and early modern passion sermons I know everything, or rather, I now discover that I thought I knew: everything changes if those words are translated into images of such power to transform in flesh and blood, striking signs of love and hatred. A Passion of violence and love Through his flesh and blood we can come into God's presence again, no longer separated by sin. Good Friday April 9, 2004 "In this sacrament, sweet Jesus, Thou dost give thy Flesh and Blood, And Thy soul and Godhead also, Yes, dear Jesus, I believe it, And with all my heart, I love Thee, Thou dost give Thy Flesh and Blood, as our own most precious food. From John P. Maloney re liturgy. (Letters to the Edtitor) Julia Kim, received Holy Communion under the species of bread and wine which then visibly changed on her tongue into a tiny palpitating heart of flesh and blood. Christ: real, not symbolic The Sacred Host received by Julia Kim was changed to living flesh and blood. Fr. Eucharistic miracle at Naju, South Korea Within the history of our Catholic Church during the past twenty centuries, there have occurred incidents in which the Flesh and Blood of Jesus hidden under the outward appearances of bread and wine become openly visible and perceptible to the human senses of sight, taste, touch and smell. Eucharistic miracles
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