gedtenar
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Hello, I'm here to ask about an idiom, I suppose. Maybe it's a rhetorical figure just used once. It's in a story by Elizabeth Gaskell.
"My father sent to Carlisle for doctors, and would have coined his heart’s blood into gold to save her, if that could have been"
Can you help me with the meaning of "coined his heart's blood into gold"? Does it mean to turn it into gold? Or maybe pawn it, but I don't think so.
Thank you!
GT
"My father sent to Carlisle for doctors, and would have coined his heart’s blood into gold to save her, if that could have been"
Can you help me with the meaning of "coined his heart's blood into gold"? Does it mean to turn it into gold? Or maybe pawn it, but I don't think so.
Thank you!
GT