blood and thunder

基本解释

As if to highlight the underlying dangers, China has this time gone further than the usual blood-and-thunder warnings and suspension of military contacts (see article).
ECONOMIST: Geopolitics
The better he does in the next few months, the more chance he has of influencing Mr Bush, who has already sounded many themes that delight social conservatives (albeit shorn of the blood-and-thunder rhetoric that sends them into the highest ecstasies).
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"I woke to the thunder of the bombs and the screams of my sister with blood spattered over me, " she told the newspaper.
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