Idiom
butcher's bill
Meaning
death toll
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The war was long and the butcher's bill was high.”
“The general looked at the report and sighed at the heavy butcher's bill from the morning battle.”
“Historians often reflect on the conflict, noting that the butcher's bill far exceeded the strategic gains achieved by either side.”
Examples
simple
“The war was long and the butcher's bill was high.”
contextual
“The general looked at the report and sighed at the heavy butcher's bill from the morning battle.”
complex
“Historians often reflect on the conflict, noting that the butcher's bill far exceeded the strategic gains achieved by either side.”
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