flesh wound
13
3.7
- noun
- /flɛʃ wuːnd/
:
herida superficial
- Lucky for her, it was only a flesh wound.
- just a flesh wound
- only a flesh wound
- minor flesh wounds
Examples
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Well, you're lucky it was just a flesh wound.
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You're lucky it's just a flesh wound.
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It's just a flesh wound, man.
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It's just a flesh wound.
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Just a flesh wound, something he can walk away from.
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The trap had made a small flesh wound on her leg, but there were no bones broken.
Fiction book (1998) -
It was just a flesh wound.
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At the hospital, the doctor said the same thing Eloise said: just a flesh wound.
Fiction book (1998) -
We are happy to say, however, that the shot fired... merely caused a slight flesh wound in Monsieur Ropa's shoulder... and he has been able to return home.
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The trap had made a small flesh wound on her leg, but there were no bones broken.
Synonyms
971
2.2
An injury where the skin is cut or torn
How Severe
- Specialized
2
6.3
- NSFW
75
7.7
13
3.7
4
3.4
203
1.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a wound that affects only the skin and soft tissue' is directly derivable from combining 'flesh' (skin/soft tissue) with 'wound' (an injury); it follows a regular noun‑noun compounding pattern where the first noun specifies the location/type of the second. This compositional, cross‑linguistically common structure makes the phrase immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Flesh wound comes from the simple picture of a cut that only touches the flesh, meaning the skin and soft parts, and not the bones or organs. Because it does not hit important parts, people used it to mean 'not serious' or 'not life-threatening'.