"scream bloody murder" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-scream bloody murder.ogg [Australia] Forms: screams bloody murder [present, singular, third-person], screaming bloody murder [participle, present], screamed bloody murder [participle, past], screamed bloody murder [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} scream bloody murder (third-person singular simple present screams bloody murder, present participle screaming bloody murder, simple past and past participle screamed bloody murder)
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To scream loudly in fear, pain, etc. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Synonyms: yell bloody murder, cry bloody murder, scream blue murder Translations (scream loudly in fear, pain, etc.): crier à l’assassin (French), crier au meurtre (French)
    Sense id: en-scream_bloody_murder-en-verb-YZeV6LoI Disambiguation of 'scream loudly in fear, pain, etc.': 92 8
  2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To protest loudly or angrily. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Translations (protest loudly or angrily): moord en brand schreeuwen (Dutch), орать благим матом (oratʹ blagim matom) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-scream_bloody_murder-en-verb-LiRx8GXK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 56 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 35 65 Disambiguation of English predicates: 39 61 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 36 64 Disambiguation of 'protest loudly or angrily': 8 92

Inflected forms

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