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What is the exact meaning and origin of the saying 'blood in the sand'?
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I've always understood it to be used to refer to circumstances where something important has happened or is expected to happen - a defining moment, if you like. As far as I know it's a reference to the culmination of the bullfight in Spain: the matador uses the sword to kill the bull (a pretty defining moment) and there is literally blood inor on the sand.
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