"smell blood" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "smells blood",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "smelling blood",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "smelled blood",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "smelled blood",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "smelt blood",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "smelt blood",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "*",
        "past2": "smelt blood"
      },
      "expansion": "smell blood (third-person singular simple present smells blood, present participle smelling blood, simple past and past participle smelled blood or smelt blood)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Jane Feather, Valentine, page 392",
          "text": "Later he intended to continue his goading of Neil. He could smell blood now; if only he could get the man to fall apart in one of their clubs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998 September 7, Paul Quinn-Judge, “Russian Roulette”, in Time",
          "text": "Smelling blood in the economic meltdown, the lower house of parliament, or Duma, took the offensive, calling for Yeltsin to resign.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 June 15, David DuPree, “Detroit stalls Spurs 96-79 in Game 3 of Finals”, in USA Today, retrieved 2011-07-14",
          "text": "The Pistons, once they smelled blood, got more aggressive and the Spurs simply ran out of gas.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 June 1, Nelson D. Schwartz, “The Trouble in Housing Trickles Up”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-07-14",
          "text": "When buyers do turn up nowadays, she says, “they smell blood in the water and routinely offer 15 to 20 percent below the asking price.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sense that one has an advantage over an adversary or rival."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "advantage",
          "advantage"
        ],
        [
          "adversary",
          "adversary"
        ],
        [
          "rival",
          "rival"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To sense that one has an advantage over an adversary or rival."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "go for the jugular"
        },
        {
          "word": "have the upper hand"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "smell blood in the water"
        }
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "smell blood"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "smells blood",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "smelling blood",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "smelled blood",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "smelled blood",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "smelt blood",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "smelt blood",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "go for the jugular"
    },
    {
      "word": "have the upper hand"
    }
  ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Jane Feather, Valentine, page 392",
          "text": "Later he intended to continue his goading of Neil. He could smell blood now; if only he could get the man to fall apart in one of their clubs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998 September 7, Paul Quinn-Judge, “Russian Roulette”, in Time",
          "text": "Smelling blood in the economic meltdown, the lower house of parliament, or Duma, took the offensive, calling for Yeltsin to resign.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 June 15, David DuPree, “Detroit stalls Spurs 96-79 in Game 3 of Finals”, in USA Today, retrieved 2011-07-14",
          "text": "The Pistons, once they smelled blood, got more aggressive and the Spurs simply ran out of gas.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 June 1, Nelson D. Schwartz, “The Trouble in Housing Trickles Up”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-07-14",
          "text": "When buyers do turn up nowadays, she says, “they smell blood in the water and routinely offer 15 to 20 percent below the asking price.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sense that one has an advantage over an adversary or rival."
      ],
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        [
          "advantage",
          "advantage"
        ],
        [
          "adversary",
          "adversary"
        ],
        [
          "rival",
          "rival"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To sense that one has an advantage over an adversary or rival."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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    }
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      "tags": [
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "smell blood in the water"
    }
  ],
  "word": "smell blood"
}