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in the flesh

in the flesh prepositional phrase: present in a physical body; in person.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Present in a physical body; in person.
    • [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.2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, in The New York...
  2. (especially) incarnate (of God or a deity: having assumed an earthly body)

in the flesh meaning in Malayalam

in the flesh in Malayalam

in person, before one's (very) eyes, in front of one
സരൂപമായി, ജീവനോടെ, സശരീരം, നേരിട്ട്, പ്രത്യക്ഷത്തിൽ, മുൻപിൽ

Synonyms of in the flesh

Questions about in the flesh

What does in the flesh mean?
In the flesh means present in a physical body; in person.
What is in the flesh in Malayalam?
In the flesh in Malayalam is സരൂപമായി, ജീവനോടെ, സശരീരം. See In the flesh meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is in the flesh?
In the flesh is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the flesh in the dictionary

  1. in the fast lane
  2. in the field
  3. in the final analysis
  4. in the first instance
  5. in the first place
  6. in the flesh
  7. in the flower of one's youth
  8. in the foothills
  9. in the frame
  10. in the front row
  11. in the furtherance of justice

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: in the flesh (page history and authors); in the flesh (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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