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blue-blood

Meaning: A person (or animal) that is an aristocrat or from a noble family.

Language: English

Literally: (Already vivid in English)

Category: Body & Senses

More idioms — Body & Senses

  • a bone of contention — A topic of dispute.
  • a bone to pick — A dispute.
  • burn one's bridges — To take a course of action that makes it impossible to go back.
  • by word of mouth — The informal, verbal passing of information from one person to another.
  • catch someone's eye — To attract someone's visual attention.
  • change of heart — A reversal of attitude.

More English idioms

  • cold feet — Too scared to do something.
  • cut off one's nose to spite one's face — To injure oneself in the process of seeking revenge or attempting to punish someone.
  • do an about-face — To change one's behavior or mind abruptly and (often) apparently without reason.
  • down in the mouth — Unhappy.
  • eat one's heart out — To suffer silently in a hopeless situation.
  • eat out of someone's hand — To be submissive; to have someone eating out of one's hand means to get someone to be sub…

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