Blood is thicker than water

1. Our loyalty to our family — that is, to our blood relations — is strong no matter how we may feel about them.

Idioms and Phrases

Family ties are closer than other relationships. For example, Nancy will drop everything to help her sister; blood is thicker than water. Alluding to the fact that water evaporates without leaving a mark whereas blood leaves a stain, this proverb was first recorded about 1412.

Example Sentences

The maxim that blood is thicker than water may hold true in a laboratory viscosity test, but human relationships are far more complicated, and estrangement is commonplace.

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“The saying ‘blood is thicker than water’ is technically true,” Samuelson Bannow says.

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There was a very “blood is thicker than water” energy about my yearning — a notion that my biological father and I would have an inexplicable bond that would heal all my wounds.

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Since Uncle Ronnie was my godfather and not my biological father, my choice was clear: Blood is thicker than water.

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