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Bad Blood

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Vindictiveness, ill-feeling.

“If there is any bad blood in the fellow he will be sure to show it.”—Brother Jonathan.

To make bad blood, to stir up bad blood. To create or renew ill-feeling and a vindictive spirit.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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