flesh and blood

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noun

offspring or relatives: one's own flesh and blood.

the human body or nature: more than flesh and blood can endure.

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Origin of flesh and blood

Middle English word dating back to 1200–50

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Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
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There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.
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Flesh encircled him at the main pool of the Paradise Hotel and Residences at Boca.
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The blood that accused his friend in his heart, rushed to his face, when he repeated what had been told him.
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It is full of poetic feeling, and the flesh tints are unusually natural.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
These differences of interests will lead to disputes, ill blood, and finally to separation.
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Such things happen to all flesh, from man even to beast, and upon sinners are sevenfold more.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
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flesh and blood

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]

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]