Blood is not that just flows in veins

Do you know what blood means?

Of course, all of you know!

Do you know what are idioms?

You may or may not!

Idioms are very interesting and funny things. They can be used to teach vocabulary.

Let’s learn some of the famous idioms by blood.

1. Blood and guts: we use this idiom to mean ‘extreme violence and bloodshed shown in movies’

People now want to see movies with more blood and guts stuff.

Hollywood depicts a large amount of blood and guts in the thrillers.

2. Blood is thicker than water: we use this idiom to show ‘blood relation is more important than other relationships’.

Your brother had slapped her. You can do nothing. After all, blood is thicker than water.

3. Blood, sweat and tears: we use this idiom to mean ‘very hard work’.

He pours all his blood, sweat and tears in cracking civil service.

4. Blood on your hands: this idiom is used to mean ‘someone is responsible for somebody’s death’.

He cannot hide from his sin. He has blood on his hands.

5. Make somebody’s blood boil: when we make somebody very angry, we use this idiom.

Don’t make my blood boil.

            I saw an elephant eating firecrackers. My blood began to boil thinking who did this.

Have you ever come to discover that the word album we use today had not been used the same in history?

Album, when it was in Rome first, has been used for a whiteboard that was used to inscribe public orders, commands, senators’ names, etc. Then it travelled to Germany, and Germans used it to keep a record of friends’ drawings, poems, autographs, etc. Finally, English loaned it to mean a book of blank pages to keep pictures, stamps, etc as memories. Till 1950, it had travelled to mean a collection of music or songs on a single disc or cassette. The collection of writings, artworks, etc is also called an album.