meet (someone) in the flesh

meet (someone) in the flesh

To meet someone in person whom one only knows at a distance, especially through a medium such as film, music, theater, etc. After years of idolizing the singer, it was a bit anticlimactic meeting her in the flesh. We've been corresponding for years, so it was wonderful finally meeting him in the flesh at the conference.
See also: flesh, meet
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • see (one) in the flesh
  • (Someone or something) called, they want their (something) back!
  • reassign
  • reassign to
  • reassign to (something)
  • rotten apple spoils the barrel
  • a bad apple spoils the (whole) barrel
  • a rotten apple spoils the (whole) bunch
  • one rotten apple spoils the (whole) barrel
  • one rotten apple spoils the (whole) bushel