in blood

prepositional phrase

In a state of perfect health and vigour.

“Members of the foreign legion paid in blood for their new citizenship.”

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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. archaichobbiesIn a state of perfect health and vigour.

    If we be English deer, be then in blood: Not rascal-like, to fall down with a pinch.

    c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]
  2. In a blood relationship, in which one is related by blood.

    ... his privies in blood (heirs) and privies in representation (executors and administrators). For it has not been doubted, that privies in blood and privies in representation might, after the death of the insane party, avoid his[…]

    1870, Joseph Story, Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in England and America, page 225
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, blood. With blood; by losing blood.

    Members of the foreign legion paid in blood for their new citizenship.

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Chicago

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