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.
See also: flesh, meet

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
DebraDEB-rəEnglish
Fiachna-Irish
Evron-Yiddish
Seong-Hunsung-hoonKorean
Fakhriyya-Arabic
Josefineyo-se-FEEN (Swedish), yo-ze-FEE-nə (German)Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German