bad blood
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bad blood
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From Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia (1823).
noun
- Feelings of hostility or ill will. The government at home, and the people of the colonies, are getting to have bad blood between them.
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A serious feud or long-standing grudge.
Now for these and other things (whereof I could tell a thousand) was the reckoning come that night; and not a line we missed of it; soon as our bad blood was up. I like not to tell of slaughter, though it might be of wolves and tigers; and that was a night of fire and slaughter, and of very long-har
Similar: blood feud, vendetta
- An inherited immoral or disturbed nature. [I]f we dare not search ourselves close enough to discover the low breeding, the bad blood in us, it will one day come out plain as the smitten brand of the forcat.
- A particular disease; in some places, syphilis.
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noun feelings of hostility or ill will
| Español | mala sangre, mala leche, mala uva |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | böses Blut |
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