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blood and treasure

blood and treasure noun: soldiers and money used for wars.

Noun

blood and treasure (uncountable)

  1. Soldiers and money used for wars.
    • to spend blood and treasure
    • Since that his Royal person went / from us beyond the Seas, / Much blood and treasure have been spent / but nere obtained peace:1660, anonymous author, “Englands pleasant May-Flovver”

Examples of blood and treasure in a sentence

  • […]the real heart of the French nation is as true to us as when a century ago she spent blood and treasure in our cause.1900, Eliot Gregory, The Ways of Men, Charles Scribner’s Sons:
  • And conservatives are willing to spend blood and treasure advancing democracy abroad in part because we prize the dignity of those living under tyranny.2026 January 3, Michael Strain, “The battle for the right’s post-Trump future has begun”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd....

Questions about blood and treasure

What does blood and treasure mean?
Blood and treasure means soldiers and money used for wars.
How do you use blood and treasure in a sentence?
[…]the real heart of the French nation is as true to us as when a century ago she spent blood and treasure in our cause.
What part of speech is blood and treasure?
Blood and treasure is a noun.

Words near blood and treasure in the dictionary

  1. blood and guts
  2. blood and ouns
  3. Blood and Sand
  4. blood and soil
  5. blood and thunder
  6. blood and treasure
  7. blood and turf
  8. blood atonement
  9. blood avenger
  10. blood avengers
  11. blood bank

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