blood runs coldとは 意味・読み方・使い方

成句

one's blood runs cold

1. (idiomatic) One experiences a visceral feeling of fear, horror, dread, or strong forboding.
   • 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, ch. 18:

     Little Oliver's blood ran cold, as he listened to the Jew's words, and imperfectly comprehended the dark threats conveyed in them.

   • 1891, H. Rider Haggard, Nada the Lily, ch. 13:

     [M]y blood ran cold and my heart turned to water, for there, before the cave, rolled wolves, many and great.

   • 1908, W. Somerset Maugham, The Magician, ch. 9:

     Her blood ran cold, and her heart seemed pressed in an iron vice.

   • 2004 Jan. 12, Jeffrey Ressner, "Sundances with Wolves," Time:

     His "blood runs cold" imagining the wrath of Weinstein.