smell blood
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McAllister could smell blood when he began to investigate the poisoning of the elderly couple by their own granddaughter.
Другие идиомы:
- sweat blood
- in cold blood
- taste blood
- blood runs cold
- have (someone's) blood on one's hands
- blood, sweat, and tears
- curdle (someone's) blood
- bad blood (between people)
- out for blood
- make (someone's) blood boil
- make (someone's) blood run cold
- too rich for (someone's) blood
- like getting blood out of a stone
- draw blood
- blue blood