- a variation of bloodbath.
blood bath
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"They're basically like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They're gold dust, but I think it's a bit of a blood bath to get tickets," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2024
Chris Mattei, a lawyer who represented the Sandy Hook families in their defamation case against the Infowars founder, Alex Jones, said in an interview that a trial would have been “a blood bath for Fox.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
In the great cryptocurrency blood bath of 2022, Wall Street is winning.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
The opera has sounded scarier and more chaotic — its blood bath met with bombast in many interpretations — but Runnicles insisted on the possibility of dramatic momentum at a more restrained scale.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2022
With no short-term solution in sight the final quarter of the year could turn into a blood bath, warns Giovanni Savorani, the head of Italy's Confindustria Ceramica federation.
From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2021
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