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flesh 1. adjective in the music industry, appearing and performing live US, 1948 2. noun an actor who appears on stage US, 1981
idiomflesh► have/take/want your pound of fleshbe flesh and bloodused in order to emphasize that although someone seems different or is treated differently from other people they have the same qualities and problems that all people have:It's hard to remember sometimes that these cool, successful, professional athletes are flesh and blood like the rest of us.I couldn't work in one of those big companies where they treat you like numbers instead of flesh and blood!flesh-and-blood: I liked the film because it presented Jesus as a real flesh-and-blood, emotional kind of guy.in the fleshused in order to emphasize that someone who would not normally be in the same place as you is actually there with you, for example someone famous or someone you have not seen for a long time:Thousands of U2 fans flocked to Dublin to see their heroes in the flesh.We've been writing to each other for ten years, but now he's actually going to be here in the flesh!sth is more than flesh and blood can stand BrEBrEused in order to say that a situation makes you very angry or upset:I don't mind him criticizing me, but when he started on my family, that was more than flesh and blood could stand!make your flesh creep/crawlif something unpleasant makes your flesh creep, it makes you feel fear or extreme dislike:That night my cousin told us a long ghost story, guaranteed to make our flesh creep, and then suggested going down to the cellar.I think it's disgusting - old men going with young girls, it makes my flesh crawl.press the fleshif a politician presses the flesh he or she shakes hands with people (greets them by holding and shaking their hands) and talks to them, in order to try to become more popular:The President kept abandoning his bodyguards and walking into the crowds to press the flesh.Yeltsin enjoyed his New York visit, attending parties, pressing the flesh in the garment district, and joking with students.put flesh on (the bones of) sthto add more details so that an opinion becomes clearer or a description becomes more interesting, or to make more decisions so that a plan becomes more definite:Kepner's study contains interviews and descriptions that put flesh on the bones of statistical analysis.The conference in Brussels was one of the first in which delegates gathered to put more flesh on the idea of a united Europe.your (own) flesh and bloodused in order to say that someone is part of your family, especially when you want to emphasize that they must be treated kindly because of this relationship:I can't forgive what Alfred has done but he is my grandson, my flesh and blood.You ought to be ashamed to talk that way about your own flesh and blood. phraseflesh[fleshed, fleshed, fleshing]
flesh out
flesh out sth • flesh sth out to add more details to a piece of writing, a speech, or a piece of music, in order to make it more interesting or to give more information: Scott fleshes out the original story with details from his own imagination. The chairman's report will flesh out the basic facts about sales and profits. Drum and bass rhythms flesh out the melodies.
See:- (one's) (own) flesh and blood
- be a thorn in (one's) flesh
- be a thorn in (someone's) side
- be a thorn in your flesh/side
- be flesh and blood
- be one flesh
- become one flesh
- exchange flesh
- flesh and blood
- flesh and blood, I'm only/one's own
- flesh out
- flesh-presser
- get goose flesh
- go the way of all flesh
- goose flesh
- goose pimples
- in person
- in the flesh
- make (one's) flesh crawl
- make (one's) flesh creep
- make (one's) skin crawl
- make fish of one and flesh of another
- make flesh crawl
- make one's flesh creep
- make someone's flesh creep
- make your flesh creep
- make your flesh creep/crawl
- meet (someone) in the flesh
- more than flesh and blood can bear
- more than flesh and blood can endure
- more than flesh and blood can stand
- more than flesh and blood can stand, endure, etc.
- neither fish nor flesh
- neither fish nor fowl
- neither fish, flesh, nor fowl
- neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring
- one flesh
- pound of flesh
- pound of flesh, a
- press (the) flesh
- press flesh
- press the flesh
- press the flesh, to
- put flesh on (the bones of) (something)
- put flesh on something
- see (one) in the flesh
- spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, the
- the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
- The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak
- the spirit is willing, but the/(one's) flesh is weak
- the world, the flesh, and the devil
- thorn in (one's) flesh
- thorn in one's flesh
- thorn in side
- thorn in the flesh
- thorn in the flesh/one's side, a
- your flesh and blood
- your pound of flesh
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