bleed like a pig

verb

To bleed profusely.

Similar
bleed like a stuck hogbleed like a stuck pig
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Meanings

verbbleed like a pig (third-person singular simple present bleeds like a pig, present participle bleeding like a pig, simple past and past participle bled like a pig)

present singular third person bleeds like a pig · participle present bleeding like a pig · participle past bled like a pig · past bled like a pig

  1. simileTo bleed profusely.

    "They carried off their wounded comrade - he was bleedin' like a pig - and then they sat around us, and if ever I saw frozen murder it was in their faces."

    1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

    Synonyms: bleed like a stuck hog, bleed like a stuck pig

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo bleed profusely.

Similar
bleed like a stuck hogbleed like a stuck pig
Also see
bleed like a stuck pig

Translations

Dutch bloeden als een rund
  • bloeden als een rundbleed profusely
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