"spit blood" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1969, Douglas Leach, chapter 4, in The Big Boys, Robert Hale, page 29:",
          "text": "...“But at the magistrate’s court he pleaded complete ignorance of the bank job—and the magistrate refused to commit him on that charge, and all he went up for was the car theft.... But why am I telling you all this? You damn near spat blood at the time, and so did I.”...",
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          "ref": "1999, John O'Farrell, chapter 4, in Things Can Only Get Better, Black Swan, pages 68-69:",
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          "ref": "2006, Katy Gardner, chapter 12, in Hidden, Michael Joseph, pages 121-122:",
          "text": "Mrs Audrey Jenning wasn’t the kind of mum you’d expect for what the law still referred to as a ‘common prostitute'. Instead, she was a respectable lady in her fifties, who, sitting primly on the edge of the battered seat he’d offered, virtually spat blood at him.",
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        {
          "word": "spit nails"
        },
        {
          "word": "spit venom"
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        {
          "word": "spit tacks"
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        {
          "word": "spit chips"
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