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'Blood on the Moon'

Posted by Barry on February 21, 2000

I heard the expression 'Blood on the Moon' used some years ago to describe some particularly unacceptable activity by a minister in the last Conservative Government in the UK. I took it to mean that what he had done was so unacceptable that it couldn't be hidden. Has anyone else heard of this usage?