Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Adjective Phrase 42. The adjective phrase
today is: flesh and blood. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. When we use the
phrase flesh and blood, it can have several meanings and uses. It can mean
one is human with human flaws like you know, you're not perfect , you make
mistakes. There's things that's not perfect about you and feelings in
comparison to other things such as machines. Number two, it can also be used
to refer to one's relatives as in the phrase somebody's flesh and blood. That
means like somebody's relatives . Somebody who's directly related to you, especially
by blood. Number three. It could be used to describe a living person you know,
kind of in a general sense. And number four an entity, you know, something that could
exist on its own possessing human-like qualities but not
actually human. Okay. So let's continue here. The origin comes from a Bible
translation around the Year 1000 AD. It was from the New Testament. You know,
Matthew remember. In the New Testament there's Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
All right and this is actually a Bible quote and it's supposed to be quote from
Jesus "Blessed art thou Simon. " Remember art thou was Old English to mean and
well blessed are you. "Blessed art thou Simon Barjona . " It's the name for flesh
and blood. "Hath not revealed it unto thee. " for flesh and blood I guess it means
like man or people have not revealed it unto thee.. you know, to you. And unto you
about my father which is in heaven remember Jesus his father is supposed to
be God. Okay. Let's continue. Now we have five examples that cover all of these
uses up here. So let's look at the first one. Somebody might say don't work me to
death. I'm only flesh and blood you know, I do get tired and feel pain. I'm not a
machine or I'm not a robot. You know, so they might say something like that. So
that would definitely cover the first one. You know, having flaws. Well you know,
we get tired that is I guess kind of a flaw. We do feel pain you know, but it's
kind of a flaw. Even though it's part of our human nature. Okay. Let's look at
number two. It is hard to believe anyone would do such a thing to their own flesh
and blood. So this goes into the phrase somebody's flesh and blood. Meaning
somebody's relatives. So maybe somebody did something terrible to one of their
relatives. I don't maybe they murdered them or did some other horrible thing to
them. Okay. Anyway, let's continue . Number three here. Be careful how you criticize
people online. Even though they are faceless. Well a lot of times you don't
actually see their face. Sometimes it can be a podcast or something. You just
hear them or or maybe it's a written article. So you don't really know what
they look like. So they're faceless and a lot of times when people are faceless
other people will criticize them more easily. It's more easy to criticize
somebody who don't really know directly. who you are criticizing. So it's hard to
believe ... be careful how you criticize people online even though they
are faceless they are still flesh and blood. So in this, this is like the... this
one here meaning that there there's still a living person. So a little
related to the first one meaning well this is the living person they may ... they
might have feelings too. So but still it just means that there are a real person.
You know , so be careful how you criticize them. All right. And let's see number four
here. The Japanese make some robots that look and respond like real flesh and
blood. All right. So this is the one where we're talking about like an entity. You
know some robot can be an entity. They could work on their own without you know,
human's help. You know , They are possessing human-like qualities. They appear like a
human. They could respond like a human. So you could use it in that sense. They have
human-like qualities. All right. And this is just another repeat here. We are only
flesh and blood. We all make mistakes. Again meaning that
you have flaws. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. I hope it was informative. Thank
you for your time. Bye-bye.