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smell blood

verb

Definitions

  1. To sense that one has an advantage over an adversary or rival.

    • Later he intended to continue his goading of Neil. He could smell blood now; if only he could get the man to fall apart in one of their clubs.
    • Smelling blood in the economic meltdown, the lower house of parliament, or Duma, took the offensive, calling for Yeltsin to resign.
    • The Pistons, once they smelled blood, got more aggressive and the Spurs simply ran out of gas.

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