Idiom
scream bloody murder
Meaning
To scream loudly in fear, pain, etc.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The toddler will scream bloody murder if you take his toy.”
“When the spider crawled across her desk, she screamed bloody murder and jumped onto her chair.”
“The witness screamed bloody murder as the masked intruder broke through the door, alerting the neighbors to the unfolding crisis.”
Examples
simple
“The toddler will scream bloody murder if you take his toy.”
contextual
“When the spider crawled across her desk, she screamed bloody murder and jumped onto her chair.”
complex
“The witness screamed bloody murder as the masked intruder broke through the door, alerting the neighbors to the unfolding crisis.”
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