flesh and blood

American  

noun

1. offspring or relatives.

   one's own flesh and blood.

2. the human body or nature.

   more than flesh and blood can endure.

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flesh and blood Idioms  

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]

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Etymology

Origin of flesh and blood

First recorded in 1200–50

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Example Sentences

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flesh and blood

But he was also a man, flesh and blood.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Does consciousness require flesh and blood to exist?

From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026

“Because it is flesh and blood and what is more important than life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

Dude No. 1 will always be Brady, a sixth-round pick now immortalized outside Gillette Stadium with a behemoth bronze statue that’s probably only a tick slower in the 40 than the flesh and blood original.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

You’d think I’d’ve come clean and told Pa, but the way he was looking, I think it would’ve killed him to know his own big-mouth flesh and blood was the cause of all this grieving.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

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