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blood and thunder

noun

sensationalism, violence, or exaggerated melodrama:
a movie full of blood and thunder.

blood-and-thunder

First recorded in 1855–60

That was a regular hair-raiser, as the fellow said when he finished the blood-and-thunder story.

Just show me something more in the blood-and-thunder line—no, at the other end of the room.

Such had been his character and life that the illustrious man was called by the name of Old Blood-and-Thunder.

Even a blood-and-thunder story of the Russian police was turned on as a serial story in their daily papers.

An aide-de-camp of Old Blood-and-Thunder, travelling through the valley, was said to have been struck with the resemblance.

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