in the flesh

Idioms and Phrases

see in person .

Example Sentences

As he shrugged off Japanese tackles to make a try-scoring Test comeback last weekend, you could see it in the flesh as well.

From BBC

One distinct memory is when her parents surprised her with tickets to The X Factor live tour, she said it was "crazy seeing them in the flesh".

From BBC

They didn't stop me sitting sharing my daughter's glee at finally seeing Taylor Swift in the flesh at Wembley; or my son's joy at tumbling down huge sand dunes on our family holiday.

From BBC

Before the seminal concert, he is reunited with his proud mother, who hasn’t seen him in the flesh in three years.

From Los Angeles Times

I do not see my patients as an assemblage of data points in the way that they, perhaps, do not see me as merely a central processing unit in the flesh.

From Salon

Related Words

• directly
• individually
• privately