Flesh and blood
C1 · Feelings & Health · C1 collocations
Meaning
A member of your family, or a normal human being with human weaknesses.
Example
How could he treat his own flesh and blood so badly?
“flesh and blood” or “blood and flesh”?
Most often in 'my/your own flesh and blood' for a relative; 'only flesh and blood' means human and therefore weak. Fixed order: not 'blood and flesh'.
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