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Synonyms

in person

Idioms  

  1. Also, in the flesh. In one's physical presence, as in He applied for the job in person, or I couldn't believe it, but there she was, in the flesh. The first expression dates from the mid-1500s. The variant, from the 1300s, was long used to allude to the bodily resurrection of Jesus, but later acquired its looser meaning. Charles Dickens has it in Our Mutual Friend (1865): “The minutes passing on, and no Mrs. W. in the flesh appearing.”

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Wishing I could talk to you in person.

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I’m not being considerate of his time—I’m feeling tremendously awkward about facing Theo, in person, after everything I told him through the door last night.

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Should you find the opportunity to come up north one day, please stop by to say hello in person.

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His only, infuriating request was that they always be delivered in person.

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More than one hundred people were so certain they had crucial knowledge that they came to the paper in person.

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