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blood and treasure en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Soldiers and money used for wars.
    • […]the real heart of the French nation is as true to us as when a century ago she spent blood and treasure in our cause. 1900, Eliot Gregory, The Ways of Men, Charles Scribner’s Sons:
    • And conservatives are willing to spend blood and treasure advancing democracy abroad in part because we prize the dignity of those living under tyranny. 2026 January 3, Michael Strain, “The battle for the right’s post-Trump future has begun”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7:
    • Since that his Royal person went / from us beyond the Seas, / Much blood and treasure have been spent / but nere obtained peace: 1660, anonymous author, “Englands pleasant May-Flovver”:
    • First he will, and then he won't, and nothing less than the irresistible pressure of a friendly and stronger purpose will constrain him to take the road which has been opened for him at such a cost of blood and treasure. 1890, William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out:
    • to spend blood and treasure