English Reference

Idiom

blood and guts

Meaning

Gore; gruesome images.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“He refuses to watch movies with too much blood and guts.”

“The horror film was full of blood and guts, which made most of the audience look away.”

“The director insisted on depicting the battlefield with unflinching realism, filling every frame with blood and guts to emphasize the true cost of war.”

Examples

simple

“He refuses to watch movies with too much blood and guts.”

contextual

“The horror film was full of blood and guts, which made most of the audience look away.”

complex

“The director insisted on depicting the battlefield with unflinching realism, filling every frame with blood and guts to emphasize the true cost of war.”

Key words

Related idioms

This entry

Updated
English Reference