blood and guts

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It is the same movie, slightly tweaked and constantly referencing and reminding you of the original, delivering what you already loved about “Gladiator”: strength and honor, bread and circuses, blood and guts.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2024

Before seeing “The Substance,” I considered myself to be generally thick-skinned about blood and guts.

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2024

So the theory is not very well supported, but it’s a sufficiently abstract argument that it gets you off the hook from dealing with all the blood and guts and feces.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2021

“If somebody’s looking for blood and guts, we are not the place. It’s about the surprise.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2019

Even worse smells wafted from the waterway that cradled the Yards’ southern edge, a festering stew of blood and guts that bubbled like a cauldron.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros