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Old 09-May-2006, 17:54
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I am having trouble finding the meaning of the following idioms:

"Blood, sweat and fun"

"Flesh and brains"

Please could you tell me what these mean.

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Hello Tam

These are variants on idiomatic expressions.

1. Blood, sweat, and fun.

– this is a humorous variant of "blood, sweat, and tears", which is a) the name of a 70s soul group b) a popular version of a phrase in a speech by the British wartime prime minister Winston Churchill ("I have nothing to offer but blood, sweat, toil and tears").

"Blood, sweat, and tears" denotes dedicated and persistent effort in a particular cause.

"Blood, sweat, and fun" denotes the dedicated pursuit of pleasure, perhaps.

2. Flesh and brains.

– this is probably a semi-humorous version of "flesh and blood". It's difficult to know what it means without more context, though!

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hi can someone make a sentence of this idiomatic expressions:

easy come, easy go
face value
fly-by-night establishment
fifty-fifty
in the bag
inch by inch
know your stuff
lion's share
loan shark
lump sum
break even
by leaps and bounds
chip in
dilver the goods
brand new

can you pls pm the sentences to me... only 1 sentence for each idiomatic expressions. tnx in advance!!!
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Francis, if you have a question, please start a new thread. If you just add questions on to existing threads, it is a bit like interrupting. Also, you are asking for examples- is this homework? Why don't you try to give some examples and we'll make suggestions.
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hi i would also like to no the correct idiomatic expressions for blood sweat and fun and flesh and brains
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hi i would also like to no the correct idiomatic expressions for blood sweat and fun and flesh and brains
i am really in need of this as i am busy with an assignment in english which must be in by the 10th
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