| 单词 | to turn blood to water |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto turn (a person's) blood to water (also ice) (b) to turn (a person's) blood to water (also ice) and variants: to frighten (a person) excessively, to terrify; to unnerve, unsettle; cf. freeze v. 5c. ΚΠ 1607 B. Jonson Volpone Ep. Ded. sig. ¶3 Where nothing but the garbage of the time is vtter'd, & that with..blasphemy, to turne the bloud of a Christian to water . View more context for this quotation 1657 J. Davies tr. H. D'Urfé Astrea II. 101 I must confesse that my feares of falling into the like, makes me tremble, and turnes my blood to ice. 1844 J. B. Fraser Dark Falcon I. i. 30 If thou art coward, must thou seek to turn his blood to water also? 1899 L. Mead Bow-legged Ghost & Other Stories i. 247 His sudden appearance turned my blood to ice, my heart to stone. 1919 E. K. Means More E. K. Means 220 The two pickaninnies let out a howl which turned Skeeter's blood to ice water. 1959 E. Ferber Ice Palace xvii. 206 They had seen wholesale horror, they had known fear that turned the blood to water and the bones to mush. 1991 J. Wolf Daughter of Red Deer ii. xix. 215 He..let out a shrill trumpeting call that turned my blood to ice. 2008 Irish Times (Nexis) 9 June 35 He had paved the way for his sales pitch with a few statistics designed to turn my blood to ice. < as lemmas |
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