| 单词 | blood is thicker than water |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblood is thicker than water f. blood is thicker than water: (originally Scottish) family loyalties and relationships are stronger than all others. ΚΠ 1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. vii. 13 Blood's thicker than Water. 1789 J. Moore Zeluco II. lxxii. 234 Surely blood is thicker than water. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 318 Weel—blood's thicker than water—she's welcome to the cheeses. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xxxii. 271 ‘I am aware that there is a family tie, or I should not have ventured to trouble you.’ ‘Blood is thicker than water; isn't it?’ 1944 F. O'Connor Crab Apple Jelly 80 A man should never interfere between families. Blood is thicker than water. 2003 C. Birch Turn again Home xxix. 316 She said Violet was not her child. Blood was thicker than water. No one was to go round and see Violet. < as lemmas |
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