bad blood

Definition

Feelings of hostility or ill will.

Etymology

From Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia (1823).

Example Sentences

• "The government at home, and the people of the colonies, are getting to have bad blood between them."
• "[T]here was bad blood between us from a couple of weeks back, and we was only friends in the way of business."
• "All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion, stirring up bad blood, from some bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag, […]."