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:
- one's flesh and blood
- draw blood
- curdle (someone's) blood
- sweat blood
- like getting blood out of a stone
- in one's blood
- bad blood (between people)
- in cold blood
- too rich for (someone's) blood
- blue blood
- make (someone's) blood boil
- taste blood
- make (someone's) blood run cold
- blood is thicker than water
- blood, sweat, and tears