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Old 14-Apr-2005, 23:25
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Default Re: Origin of two expressions

The idea of the blood heating goes back, I believe, to medieval ideas about the functioning of the body, where things could affect the temperature of the blood. I don't know the origins of 'bedroom eyes', but the association with the bedroom as the place for sex is obvious enough.
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