Definition of "in the flesh" [in the flesh]

• Present in a physical body; in person. (adverb)

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• "Vexation awakening a pearl in the flesh of an oyster."
• "Sprawled at the feet of the dissident leader Tirza Sirajaldin, a man she had never truly met in the flesh until this moment, Carol considered the device on her wrist."
• "The small colloidally fine particles of I-713 in the flesh would set up their own danger sig­nal, and could be scraped away in the worst cases; otherwise, they'd probably have to stay until the isotope exhausted itself."