in person

in person

1. With one's own body and presence; not through a representative or indirectly.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. […] Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.

   Have you ever seen a celebrity in person?

   He had seen the burger on TV, but in person it looked so much juicier.

• face to face
• in the flesh
• vis-à-vis

• in personam

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