Meaning of in the flesh | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Present in a physical body; in person.
2. incarnate (of God or a deity: having assumed an earthly body)
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Examples

“[S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.”

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