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单词 man of blood and iron
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man of blood and iron
man of blood and iron [after German Mann von Blut und Eisen (1862)] : (originally) a nickname for Otto von Bismarck (with reference to his advocacy of military force as a tool of foreign policy); (later also more generally) any advocate of force rather than diplomacy.The nickname has been largely superseded by The Iron Chancellor.
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1864 tr. Der Wanderer (Vienna) in Times 22 June 14/4 The man of blood and iron (the Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs) will not listen to reason.
1869 Porcupine 18 Sept. 235/1 I don't wonder at that man of ‘blood and iron’—Bismarck—openly expressing himself an admirer of La good-looking Lucca.
1872 New Dominion Monthly Oct. 195/1 You will find him indeed a man of ‘blood and iron’.
1957 W. Stark in D. Scott tr. F. Meinecke Machiavellism Introd. p. xviii The sinister Bismarck,..the man of blood and iron, who forged his empire in the furnace of war.
2007 Esquire Nov. 127/3 The colonel himself, a self-mythologising, hard-drinking sentimentalist, a man of blood and iron at 40 per cent proof, who sees the will to power as all.
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