blood and thunder


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

Origin of blood and thunder

1
First recorded in 1855–60

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How to use blood and thunder in a sentence

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

    Frank Merriwell's Races | Burt L. Standish
  • 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.

    What Germany Thinks | Thomas F. A. Smith
  • An aide-de-camp of Old Blood-and-Thunder, travelling through the valley, was said to have been struck with the resemblance.

British Dictionary definitions for blood-and-thunder

blood-and-thunder

adjective
  1. denoting or relating to a melodramatic adventure story

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