Blood Idioms and Expressions
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Idioms
I am determined to make idioms as accessible for all students as any other part of the English language. Reading and memorising lists of vocabulary is not the most productive, interesting, or useful exercise in English language learning. I created these Activities to encourage you to not only learn and remember many English idioms, but also to have fun with them, as having fun is a great aid to learning and remembering. It is important that you know as many idioms as possible as native English speakers use them with alarming regularity. I hope that as you work your way through the Idiom Activities you will make some of the idioms your own and use them regularly like a native.
Vocabulary
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Blood is the vital fluid found in humans and other animals. There are many expressions in English that use the word blood. The expressions in this lesson include get blood out of a stone, blood is thicker than water, bloodshed, cold-blooded, in cold blood, hot-blooded, blood up, blood boils, blueblood, fresh blood, new blood, half-blood, run in the blood, own flesh and blood, young blood, blood clot, blood bank, blood brother, bloodlust, bloodthirsty, blood sport, blood wagon, bloodhound, bloodletting, bloodshot, bloody, blood diamond, and bloodstained.
Body Idioms CourseBLOOD IDIOMS
BAD BLOOD
Animosity and ill feeling between people because of the past disagreement or argument, is known as bad blood.
“All the problems in Romeo and Juliet were caused by bad blood between the two families.”
TO HAVE BLUE BLOOD
To have blue blood is to be descended from aristocracy.
“He claims to be related to royalty, but he’s got as much blue blood as my cat.”
BURST/BUST A BLOOD VESSEL
To become enraged by something is to almost burst a blood vessel.
“My father almost burst a blood vessel when he saw what I had done to his car.”
TO MAKE YOUR BLOOD BOIL
Something or someone that makes your blood boil enrages you.
“The way young people these days disrespect their elders makes my blood boil.”
YOUR OWN FLESH AND BLOOD
Your own flesh and blood is any of your family or close relations.
“Why would anyone treat their own flesh and blood as badly as she does?”
BLOODCURDLING
Anything which is terrible and fills you with a feeling of horror is bloodcurdling.
“I heard a bloodcurdling scream and found her with her hand trapped in the machinery.”
IN COLD BLOOD
In cold blood means to behave in a merciless and unfeeling manner.
“He murdered the entire family in cold blood.”
NEW BLOOD
New blood is used to describe new people brought into an organisation to bring new ideas.
“The only way we’re going to get out of this mess is to bring in some new blood.”
OUT FOR BLOOD
Someone who is out for blood is looking to get revenge for someone else’s actions.
“I don’t know what you said to him, but he’s out for blood.”
MAKE YOUR BLOOD RUN COLD
Something that makes your blood run cold shocks, horrifies, or frightens you greatly.
“The thought of facing them with no protection whatsoever made my blood run cold.”
TO SMELL BLOOD
To recognise a weakness in an opponent and to be ready to take advantage of them is to smell blood.
“A lawyer at the scene of an accident is like a shark smelling blood.”
Body Idioms
I originally thought that I would find 100 to 200 idioms related to the body, but as I continued gathering the idioms for each part of the body, I realised there were going to be considerably more. With an ever-growing list of idioms before me, I despaired of ever being able to complete the definitions and examples that would be required for each one. However, with a bit of elbow grease, I put my back into it, and managed to complete all 522 of them. In this course, you will find many of the idiomatic expressions related to the body.
Back Idioms
This lesson will help to you learn, remember, and use 20 common British English idiomatic expressions. The idioms are, behind your back, break the back of something, watch your back, back to back, fell off the back of a lorry, scratch back, like water off a duck's back, turn your back on, get someone's back up, watch someone's back, put your back into something, back out of, on someone's back, a pat on the back, give the shirt off your back, back against the wall, stabbed in the back, back someone up, have or take the shirt off your back, when your back is turned, and bend over backwards.
Bone Idioms
The 12 idioms are, make no bones about it, a bone of contention, have a bone to pick with someone, dry as a bone, chilled to the bone, feel it in your bones, bone idle, close to the bone, have a skeleton in the closet, skin and bones, work your fingers to the bone, and bone shaking. This British English idioms lesson will help to you learn, remember, and use 12 common British English idiomatic expressions which use the word bone.
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