| 单词 | to turn blood to poison |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto turn (a person's) blood to poison (also gall, etc.) (a) to turn (a person's) blood to poison (also gall, etc.): to embitter (a person), to fill with hatred or rancour; to infuriate. ΚΠ 1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois iii. 41 Thy gall turns all thy blood to poison. 1682 E. Settle Heir of Morocco iii. 26 How she frets my Soul! Turns all my Blood to Gall. 1764 C. Churchill Candidate 28 This turn'd her blood to gall. 1785 Scots Mag. May 225/1 When the treachery of people which I ought to have despised, had turned my heart to marble and my blood to gall, I was determined upon leaving France. 1828 H. Neele Romance of Hist. II. 174 The sight of a little white cottage at the entrance of the avenue of elms which led to the castle gate, seemed to turn all the blood in his veins to poison. 1887 J. A. Knox & C. M. Snyder False Prophet 40 When I'm mad all my blood turns to bile. 1904 J. G. Greenhough in G. Milligan et al. Men of Old Test. xx. 281 Disaster has soured him, and disappointment turned his blood to gall. 1921 C. Aiken Punch i. 38 How like a cramp it [sc. jealousy] shuts about the heart And turns the blood to poison. 1985 H. Courlander Master of Forge xiii. 131 Grief and anger turned my blood to poison. 2003 J. D. Randers-Pehrson Col. Erbe's Daughters viii. 112 Outwardly she was calm, but her bones were turning to rusted iron, and her blood to venom. < as lemmas |
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