new blood

Idioms and Phrases

Additional, fresh individuals regarded as an invigorating force, as in an organization. For example, The board could really use some new blood next year . This metaphoric expression, first recorded in 1853, alludes to a blood transfusion and employs new in the sense of “fresh.”

Example Sentences

The Republican party is often mocked, with what seems like good reason, for refusing to nominate new blood for president.

From The Daily Beast

And the Republican Party will be even more desperate for new blood than it is now.

From The Daily Beast

Dudley will equally fail if he does not learn the lesson and hire new blood.

From The Daily Beast

Like the mythic vampire, a Ponzi scheme needs to find new blood to sustain itself.

From The Daily Beast

The whole system is to be reconstructed; half the present people are to be pensioned off, and new blood is to be introduced.

From Project Gutenberg

He felt such a leap of new blood in his arteries, such a rush of fresh air into his lungs, that he seemed to waken from a coma.

From Project Gutenberg

The great part of the new blood for his language came not so much from Flemish as from science.

From Project Gutenberg

So long as there was in the Italian municipia new blood upon which it could draw, Roman poetry grew in strength.

From Project Gutenberg

Still there had been an infusion of new blood, and McRae was constantly on the lookout for more.

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