单词 | blood requires blood |
释义 | > as lemmasblood requires blood n. In proverbial phrases indicating that bloodshed will cause, or only be avenged by, further bloodshed, as blood will have blood, blood requires blood, etc.Frequently with allusion to Genesis 9:6. ΚΠ a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. l. 6786 Thus blood for blood with vengaunce shal be bouht. 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Duke of Glocester f. xiv Take heed ye princes by examples past, Blood wyll haue blood, eyther fyrst or last. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 121 It will haue blood they say: Blood will haue Blood. View more context for this quotation 1680 E. Settle Female Prelate i. i. 3 Blood requires blood, and vengeance weilds a Sword That cuts on both sides. 1740 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 195/1 An injur'd nation blood for blood demands. 1771 Hibernian Mag. Feb. 18/2 Blood will have blood, and I hope England will, as an atonement, shed the blood of the traitors. 1837 Bristol Mercury 3 June 4/2 There are numbers who..feel themselves hampered by the oft-repeated adage, ‘Blood requires blood.’ 1882 A. D. Hosterman Life & Times of James Abram Garfield ix. 127 Blood will have blood, and so he, too, goes to the judgement. 1919 C. E. Russell Bolshevism & U.S. iv. 71 Every oppression must bear its crop of violence and sorrow: blood will have blood. 1964 Times 7 Aug. 11/2 They [sc. China and North Vietnam] throw every kind of charge—aggression, lying, madcap adventurism—against the United States and declare that blood will have blood. 1984 B. Farwell Gurkhas (1990) xxvii. 274 Blood for blood and nothing but blood would settle this account. 2006 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 11 Nov. 20 What the story of the doomed House of Atreus..potently demonstrates is the way blood will have blood. < as lemmas |
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