meet in the flesh

meet/see somebody in the flesh

to meet or see someone yourself, instead of watching them in a film or on television, etc. I knew his face so well from the photographs that it felt a bit strange when I finally saw him in the flesh.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Doretta	-	English
Nirmala	neer-MAH-lah (Indonesian)	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Nepali, Indonesian
Beckett	BEK-it	English (Modern)
Ikaros	-	Greek Mythology
Samu	SAH-moo (Finnish)	Hungarian, Finnish
Harrietta	her-ee-ET-ə, har-ee-ET-ə	English (Rare)