in the flesh

Now, for the first time one of these extinct predators has been spotted in the flesh.

As he shrugged off Japanese tackles to make a try-scoring Test comeback last weekend, you could see it in the flesh as well.

One distinct memory is when her parents surprised her with tickets to The X Factor live tour, she said it was "crazy seeing them in the flesh".

They didn't stop me sitting sharing my daughter's glee at finally seeing Taylor Swift in the flesh at Wembley; or my son's joy at tumbling down huge sand dunes on our family holiday.

Before the seminal concert, he is reunited with his proud mother, who hasn’t seen him in the flesh in three years.