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1737 A. Ramsay A Collection of Scots Proverbs vii. 13 Blood’s thicker than Water. Oxford English Dictionary. The proverb appears on page 256 of the 1814 reprint. Is teughaidh fuil no burn. Blood is thicker than water. Donald Macintosh (1785). A Collection of Gaelic Proverbs, and Familiar Phrases, p. 50. Edinburgh.
A hotter liquid is less viscous aka runnier aka thinner. In bygone naive/folk biology/logic the person acclimatized to heat has thinner blood that is not appropriate for being in the cold so they'd be cold. Blood is thicker than water--it metaphorically sticks people together. Molasses in January. –
"Blood is thicker than water" is possibly the most misapplied adages; the full version is "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb," which has a completely opposite meaning to the shortened version. –
The idea of getting water from a stone is an unreasonable idea. I think the meaning behind this verse is that it is such a tremendous feat, and yet God could accomplish it with a single strike. This may not be exactly the meaning you were looking for, but nobody else mentioned it, and I do believe it is supporting evidence of the phrases true ...
There's only snippets so it's not possible to verify, but Google Books has some earlier references than the OED's 1967. 1943 's The Business of Getting Well by Marshall Sprague: Cora, the cleaning woman, told me that he has "a reg'lar oF hissy-fit" whenever she tries to sweep under his furniture.
lather is mostly related to use of soap, thicker than suds. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. are the instructions for when one creates a lather with shampoo in one's hair. But also, horse sweat as in: beat a horse into a lather. suds are lighter (larger bubbles) than a lather, and often associated with soap for cleaning both personal and laundry. soap suds
Like trying to squeeze blood from a turnip. and another is: It's like trying to herd cats. They each are used is slightly different situations. To be most analogous to your expression it sounds like I'd use the first one: Trying to convince him is like beating your head against the wall
A river is a larger body of water that flows aboveground, in a particular direction, and usually has a large volume of water in it. (This varies, of course, according to rainfall and/or snowfall totals. A river will always have more water in it than a stream, however.) Rivers often flow into other bodies of water.
I would be surprised if a single blood drop made any audible sound hitting something as soft and yielding as human skin, the gentlest of "ticks" on a taut section of fresh perhaps. "Splat" suggests the sound a bucket of blood makes hitting the wall or floor.
To strictly fit the format, you could use thirst in its verb form. Hence. He thirsted to death. However, its use as a verb is relatively rare (indeed, it may well be one of those interesting cases where metaphorical use out-numbers literal, and The athlete thirsted for Olympic gold seems more natural than I thirsted for a decent craft-brewed beer, though both events described are as likely to ...