Blood is thicker than water

Cultural  

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

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blood is thicker than water Idioms  

1. 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.

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Example Sentences

As I soak beef to make another batch of bone soup for my mom, I'm reminded in more ways than one that blood is thicker than water.

From Salon • May 22, 2021

"But blood is thicker than water, and later on when I visited them I found that they welcomed me. My two kids now stay with my mother."

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2019

The strategy had resonance, since blood provides so many of our metaphors about family: blood ties, blood relations, blood is thicker than water, and so on.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 24, 2019

But in the end, blood is thicker than water.

From The Guardian • Sep. 9, 2016

After all blood is thicker than water, and Brenda had a little more than her share of true family pride.

From Brenda, Her School and Her Club by Reed, Helen Leah