your own flesh and blood
Definition
› your family or relations: It's hard to believe that he could treat his own flesh and blood so badly.Family relations in general
(Definition of your own flesh and blood from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- aunt noun
- be sb's own flesh and blood idiom
- birth mother noun
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