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new blood

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(some) new blood and fresh blood
Fig. new personnel; new members brought into a group to revive it. This company needs some new blood on its board to bring in new ideas. We're trying to get some new blood in the club. our membership is falling.
See also: blood, new

new blood
new people in an organization who will provide new ideas and energy It's time we injected some new blood into this organization.
See also: blood, new


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Well, we need new blood and new money--and I hear she's still very good-looking," the carnivorous old lady declared.
But now they must have become angered by the continuous noise and excited by the smell of new blood, for all of a sudden a great form shot from a clump of low shrubbery into the midst of a struggling mass of humanity.
Now the sightless banth, in its savage, aimless charging and counter-charging, had passed beyond the kill of its fellow, and there the light breeze that was blowing wafted the scent of new blood to its nostrils.
 
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