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draw blood
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.Example Sentences
Not everyone is grooving with him — one employee suddenly leaps from his chair and bites his superior hard enough to draw blood.
Every other day, I went back to the fertility clinic so the staff could monitor my vitals and draw blood.
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.”
Weeks later, LyBurtus had to dial 911 again after he bit his sister’s finger badly enough to draw blood.
“Hacks,” however, makes the battle entertaining, even when the characters we love draw blood.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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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