Re: Blood and treasure


Mark Brader wrote:
> Lars Eighner:
> > > It seems to me that "blood and treasure" got fixed in an
> > > anticlimactic order.
>
> Donna Richoux:
> > It must be some sort of recent American thing. I never thought of
> > it as a fixed phrase at all.
>
> Likewise.
>
> Winston Churchill famously spoke of "blood, toil, tears, and sweat"
> -- blood first, sweat as the climactic element.
> --
> Mark Brader, Toronto "History will be kind to me, for I intend
> msb@xxxxxxx to write it." -- Churchill

And of course, there was that band "Blood, Sweat and Tears".

TOF

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