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bad blood

noun

  1. unfriendly or hostile relations; enmity; hostility; animosity.

    When the territory was being settled there was bad blood between the farmers and the ranchers.



bad blood

noun

  1. a feeling of intense hatred or hostility; enmity

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of bad blood1

First recorded in 1815–25
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Idioms and Phrases

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.
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The crosstown rivalry has grown into the most passionate in MLS but most of that bad blood is felt in the stands.

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Now months since the viral moment, the country music star says he has no bad blood with “SNL.”

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That these two women have bad blood between them is obvious, but readers are, at this point, as in the dark as daughters Nora and Madeline.

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“There’s just a lot of tension, there’s a lot of bad blood,” one Pentagon source told Politico of the current mood at the Pentagon.

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Even if the current standoff cools down, bad blood could linger, several industry-watchers have said — and not just in Canada.

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