Gory Phrases

Phrases

• Bloody Mary (Nickname of Mary Tudor)
• Bloody Sunday
• Bloody Volvo driver (Volvo advertising slogan)
• Bloody but unbowed
• Bloody minded
• Bloody typical
• Dark And Bloody Ground (Nickname of the US state of Kentucky)
• Give someone a bloody nose
• Scream bloody murder
• The Big Bad (Nickname of William the Bloody (James Marsters))
• The Poor Bloody Infantry (term used to describe the British infantry in WWI)
• Wave the bloody shirt
• You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! (line from the Michael Caine movie The Italian Job)