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sweat blood
Also, sweat one's guts out . Work diligently or strenuously, as in The men were sweating blood to finish the roof before the storm hit . The phrase using guts was first used about 1890, and that with blood shortly thereafter.
Suffer mental anguish, worry intensely, as in Waiting for the test results, I was sweating blood . This usage was first recorded in a work by D.H. Lawrence in 1924. Both usages are colloquial, and allude to the agony of Jesus in Gethsemane (Luke 22:44): “And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”
Example Sentences
“It was personal for everybody,” Briesewitz says, “so people gave it their sweat, blood and tears — everything.”
And .500 suggests that the sweat, blood and tears expended nightly through April, May, June and into July has the team no better or worse than it started opening day.
Smith gives the solid, easily sympathetic, sometimes rousing performance you’d expect, even if what’s called for here is less a nuanced feat of acting than a forceful display of sweat, blood and endurance.
Sweat, blood and tears go into the business — mine, too, I should note.
“So just countless hours, being with these guys, and for the coaches to trust me to be in that position I feel I feel very blessed. It was a long process, and I feel like it was a lot of sweat, blood and tears I put into it.”
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