blood

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blood

1. One's most intense emotions. That article really got my blood up. How dare that writer mock our cute little town like that? It's a hot-button topic that's sure to rile up people's blood.
2. One's natural or inherited characteristic, talent, ideology, etc. I think it's been in his blood from day one to be an athlete. I know that I don't have the blood of a novelist in me, but I still like writing the odd short story in my own time.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

blood

verb
See blood brother

blood

1. n. catsup. Somebody pass the blood.
2. Go to blood (brother).
3. n. a black buddy or fellow gang member. (Streets. Also a term of address.) My bloods aren’t going to like this.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (as) red as blood
  • (one's) (own) flesh and blood
  • (one's) blood is up
  • (one's) blood runs cold
  • (someone's) blood is on (one's) hands
  • a (sudden) rush of blood (to the head)
  • a bit (too) rich for (one's) blood
  • a little (bit) (too) rich for (one's) blood
  • a rush of blood
  • after (one's) blood
  • after your blood
  • bad blood
  • bay for blood
  • be after (one's) blood
  • be after/out for somebody's blood
  • be baying for blood
  • be baying for someone's blood
  • be flesh and blood
  • be in (one's) blood
  • be out for blood
  • blood
  • blood and guts
  • blood and iron
  • blood and thunder
  • blood blister
  • blood brother
  • blood from a stone/turnip, one can't get
  • blood in the water
  • blood is shed
  • blood is thicker than (something)
  • blood is thicker than water
  • blood money
  • blood moon
  • blood on the carpet
  • blood out of a stone
  • blood runs thicker than water
  • blood sister
  • blood will have blood
  • blood will tell
  • blood, sweat and tears
  • blood, sweat, and tears
  • bloodshot eyes
  • blue blood
  • burst a blood vessel
  • check (one's) blood pressure
  • cold blood
  • cold blood, in
  • curdle (one's) blood
  • curdle blood
  • draw blood
  • draw first blood
  • first blood
  • flesh and blood
  • flesh and blood, I'm only/one's own
  • freeze (someone's) blood
  • freeze blood
  • freeze your blood
  • fresh blood
  • fresh/new/young blood
  • get (one's) blood up
  • get blood from a stone
  • get blood out of a stone
  • get blood up
  • have (someone's) blood on (one's) hands
  • have (someone's) blood on (one's) head
  • have a (sudden) rush of blood to the head
  • have a rush of blood to the head
  • have blood on hands
  • have blood on your hands
  • have sporting blood
  • Hell’s bells and buckets of blood!
  • hell's bells and buckets of blood
  • in (one's) blood
  • in blood
  • in cold blood
  • in one’s blood
  • in one's blood
  • in the blood
  • in the/somebody's blood/genes
  • in your blood
  • like getting blood from a stone
  • like getting blood from a turnip
  • like getting blood out of a stone
  • like getting blood out of a turnip
  • like getting blood out of/from a stone
  • make (one's) blood boil
  • make (one's) blood curdle
  • make (one's) blood run cold
  • make blood boil
  • make blood run cold
  • make one's blood boil
  • make one's blood boil, to
  • make one's blood run cold
  • make somebody's blood boil
  • make somebody's blood run cold
  • make your blood boil
  • make your blood curdle
  • make your blood run cold
  • more than flesh and blood can bear
  • more than flesh and blood can endure
  • more than flesh and blood can stand
  • more than flesh and blood can stand, endure, etc.
  • new blood
  • out for blood
  • out for, be
  • piss blood
  • prince of the blood
  • red as a cherry
  • run in (one's) blood
  • run in the blood
  • run in the blood/family, to
  • scent blood
  • shed blood
  • smell blood
  • someone's blood is up
  • spill blood
  • spit blood
  • spit blood/venom/feathers
  • sporting blood
  • stir (one's) blood
  • stir somebody's/the blood
  • stir the blood
  • sweat blood
  • sweat blood, to
  • take (one's) blood pressure
  • take blood pressure
  • taste blood
  • there is bad blood between
  • too rich for (one's) blood
  • too rich for blood
  • too rich for someone’s blood
  • worms in blood
  • You cannot get blood from a stone
  • you can't get blood from a stone
  • you can't get blood from a turnip
  • you can't get blood out of a turnip
  • you can't squeeze blood from a stone
  • you can't squeeze blood from a turnip
  • young blood
  • your blood's worth bottling
  • your flesh and blood
  • your/somebody's blood is up
References in classic literature
Thou art the man who smotest blood on the door-posts of the king to bewitch the king.
I smote blood upon the gateways of my kraal; with my own hand I smote it, that I might learn who were the true doctors and who were the false!
The shape was the shape of an aged woman, and even through the blood and mire I knew her.
He shall bewitch thee with blood indeed, Chaka--he and Unandi, thy mother, and Baleka, thy wife.
Any ghost that you let taste of the blood will talk with you like a reasonable being, but if you do not let them have any blood they will go away again.'
"On this the ghost of Teiresias went back to the house of Hades, for his prophecyings had now been spoken, but I sat still where I was until my mother came up and tasted the blood. Then she knew me at once and spoke fondly to me, saying, 'My son, how did you come down to this abode of darkness while you are still alive?
They gathered in crowds about the blood, and I considered how I might question them severally.
As soon as he had tasted the blood, he knew me, and weeping bitterly stretched out his arms towards me to embrace me; but he had no strength nor substance any more, and I too wept and pitied him as I beheld him.
You must have seen numbers of men killed either in a general engagement, or in single combat, but you never saw anything so truly pitiable as the way in which we fell in that cloister, with the mixing bowl and the loaded tables lying all about, and the ground reeking with our blood. I heard Priam's daughter Cassandra scream as Clytemnestra killed her close beside me.
Not stones that shine, not yellow metal that gleams, these thou leavest to 'white men from the Stars.' Methinks I know thee; methinks I can smell the smell of the blood in thy heart.
Blood transfusions are the most common lifesaving medical intervention carried out in any hospital anywhere in the world.
Gordon, chairman of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC), said that by requiring patients, particularly those in critical conditions, to produce donors first before they are provided with the required blood, defeats the purpose of closing down the commercial blood banks.
A simple blood donation can save a life, and the American Red Cross has made it as easy as possible for donors to give blood.
Muscat: Oman's central blood bank issued an urgent message for donors to come forward and give them A-negative blood, as patients in hospitals immediately require them for emergency blood transfusions.
Study design, settings and duration: A descriptive cross sectional study was carried out in blood banks of private and public sector hospitals of Lahore and Peshawar from January to December 2016.