flesh and blood

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A human body; a person generally. uncountable
    — […] I'll tell you what else is a fact. It's a fact that he is wearing his blue Shetland turtle-neck today. Even as we speak his body is moving inside it. Warm and quick. It's more than flesh and blood can stand.
  2. One's family, or member of one's family. uncountable
    — How dare you say such a thing to your own flesh and blood?
  3. Human nature. uncountable
  4. A mixture of brandy and port in equal quantities. Ireland,UK,obsolete,slang,uncountable
形容词 adj.
  1. Consisting of flesh, blood, and other substances associated with animals or humans. not-comparable
  2. Real; substantial. figuratively,not-comparable
    — [Minnesota Senator Steve] Daines isn’t the only example of right-wing politicians who wish to wield anti-Semitism as a convenient cudgel against their political enemies, with scant if any evidence. But Montana’s vanishingly small Jewish population makes it particularly clear that this strategy has little to do with flesh-and-blood Jews at all.

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