blood in someone's eye
- idiom
- Informal
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- The defeat filled her with blood in her eye, pushing her to train relentlessly for the next championship.
Examples
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I got blood in my eye.
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- I couldn't see with all that blood in my eye.
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Honey, you have blood in your eye.
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Ancaria has blood in her eye.
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Burns my ears and spits blood in my eye.
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After losing the game, his blood in his eye made him vow to practice harder next time.
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When she heard the unfair comments, there was blood in her eye, and she was determined to prove them wrong.
Synonyms
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6.8
A very strong anger that wants revenge
Antonyms
How Angry
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal components 'blood' and 'eye' evoke violence/intensity, so a learner might guess a heightened emotional state, but the specific sense of anger plus a desire for revenge or intense determination is a metaphorical extension not directly deducible from the parts. The mapping from the image to the idiomatic meaning is language-specific and requires familiarity, making it only partially predictable.
Etymology
Blood in someone's eye may come from the image of a fighter or an injured animal with blood in its eye, who can hardly see and fights even harder. So, the phrase means being full of 'anger', 'desire for revenge', or strong 'determination'.