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blood bath

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noun

  1. indiscriminate slaughter; a massacre

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Is Broadway facing a bonanza or a blood bath?

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

Cooperation between the United States and the Taliban began in earnest during the evacuation last summer, in order to avoid a blood bath in the capital.

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2022

In the great cryptocurrency blood bath of 2022, writes The Times’s Emily Flitter, Wall Street is winning.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 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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