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bad blood
noun
unfriendly or hostile relations; enmity; hostility; animosity: When the territory was being settled there was bad blood between the farmers and the ranchers.
Origin:
1815–25
1815–25
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World English Dictionary
| bad blood | |
| —n | |
| a feeling of intense hatred or hostility; enmity | |
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bad blood
Anger or hostility between persons or groups, as in There's been bad blood between the two families for years. This term is based on the old association with blood and emotion, particularly anger. Versions such as ill blood preceded it; Charles Lamb was among the first to use the idiom in its current form in an 1823 essay.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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