bleed like a pig

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bleed like a pig (third-person singular simple present bleeds like a pig, present participle bleeding like a pig, simple past and past participle bled like a pig)

  1. To bleed profusely.
    • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World [], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
      "They carried off their wounded comrade - he was bleedin' like a pig - and then they sat around us, and if ever I saw frozen murder it was in their faces."

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