词汇 | blood, sweat and tears |
释义 | Idiom blood, sweat and tears a lot of effort and suffering.This house is the result of 3 years' blood, sweat and tears. blood, sweat, and tearsMaximum effort. I poured my blood, sweat, and tears into this company, and I refuse to let you destroy it! Let's take a moment to acknowledge the people whose blood, sweat, and tears went into this project. blood, sweat, and tearsFig. the signs of great personal effort. There will be much blood, sweat, and tears before we have completed this project. After years of blood, sweat, and tears, Timmy finally earned a college degree. blood, sweat, and tearsCOMMON If a task involves blood, sweat, and tears, it is very hard to do and involves a lot of effort or suffering. It's almost as if the end product — the songs themselves — are less important than the blood, sweat and tears that went into them. He started work at the company which his wife, Pat, had spilled blood, sweat and tears to form. Note: This expression is originally from a wartime speech by the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in which he said, `I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat'. He used the expression several times in other wartime speeches. blood, sweat, and tearsextremely hard work; unstinting effort.In May 1940 Winston Churchill made a speech in the House of Commons in which he declared: ‘I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.’ ˌblood, sweat and ˈtearsvery hard work; a lot of effort: The only way to succeed is through old-fashioned blood, sweat and tears.blood, sweat, and tearsHard work; enormous effort. The phrase is associated with one of the twentieth century’s finest speakers, Winston Churchill, who on becoming Britain’s prime minister in 1940 said, “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, sweat and tears” (today the “toil” is often dropped when quoting him). The phrase was not original with Churchill. In 1611 John Donne wrote (First Anniversary), “. . . ’tis in vaine to dew, or mollifie it [this world] with thy teares, or sweat, or blood.” Among others who used similar phrases were Byron, Browning, and Gladstone. |
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