up close and personal

British  

adverb

1. intimately

   he got to know the prime minister up close and personal

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adjective

1. intimate

   up-close-and-personal interaction

Example Sentences

Soldiers fighting with invisible waves and signals who once stayed in the back are now coming forward “up close and personal with the enemy,” said First Lt.

From The Wall Street Journal

I was a legislator at the time in California, watching it up close and personal and seeing the cases filed, and I’ve always called that “the rise of the AGs.”

From Slate

Miller’s view is up close and personal, providing the reader with private antidotes while examining her poems and correlating them to geopolitical issues.

From Salon

But this time, it’s being presented off-Broadway in a radically reconceived version, dubbed “Masquerade,” that lets audiences get up close and personal with the phantom himself.

From MarketWatch

Saving the best for last, we ended the set visit getting up close and personal with some Xenomorphs and its younger form, the Facehugger.

From Salon