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draw blood



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Idioms and Phrases

Injure someone physically or emotionally. For example, The bullet skimmed his shoulder and barely drew any blood , or That reviewer really knows how to draw blood . This term alludes to drawing blood for diagnostic purposes.
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Not everyone is grooving with him — one employee suddenly leaps from his chair and bites his superior hard enough to draw blood.

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Every other day, I went back to the fertility clinic so the staff could monitor my vitals and draw blood.

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Lucy Liu’s 9-year-old son, Rockwell, hasn’t seen his mother draw blood in “Charlie’s Angels” or “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” and certainly not in “Kill Bill, Vol. 1.”

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Weeks later, LyBurtus had to dial 911 again after he bit his sister’s finger badly enough to draw blood.

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“Hacks,” however, makes the battle entertaining, even when the characters we love draw blood.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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