in the flesh

English

Prepositional phrase

in the flesh

1. Present in a physical body; in person.

   Synonyms: in person, face to face, IRL

   • 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 Times‎^[1]:

     [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.

2. (religion, especially Christianity) incarnate (of God or a deity: having assumed an earthly body)

Translations

with one's own body and presence

• Catalan: en car i òs, en persona
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 親自／亲自 (zh) (qīnzì)

• Dutch: persoonlijk (nl), in levenden lijve (nl)
• Finnish: ilmielävänä
• French: en personne (fr), en chair et en os (fr)
• German: aus Fleisch und Blut, in echt (colloquial)
• Greek: αυτοπροσώπως (el) (aftoprosópos), με σάρκα και οστά (me sárka kai ostá)
• Italian: in carne ed ossa
• Japanese: 直々に (jikijiki ni)
• Korean: 스스로 (ko) (seuseuro)
• Polish: we własnej osobie
• Portuguese: em pessoa (pt), em carne e osso
• Russian: во плоти́ (ru) (vo plotí), ли́чно (ru) (líčno), со́бственной персо́ной (sóbstvennoj persónoj)
• Spanish: en carne y hueso, en persona (es)
• Swedish: i egen hög person

incarnate

• German: im Fleische, fleischgeworden (de)