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life blood

[lahyf-bluhd]

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noun

1.

the blood, considered as essential to maintain life: to spill one's lifeblood in war.

2.

a life-giving, vital, or animating element: Agriculture is the lifeblood of the country.

Origin:
1580–90; life + blood

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lifeblood

1580s, "blood necessary for life," from life + blood. Figurative and transferred use is from 1590s.

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