blood and guts
Raw brutal combat
Blood and guts refers to graphic violence, gore, or the visceral details of combat and carnage: The movie was ninety minutes of blood and guts.
As a modifier, it describes something brutally direct or aggressively confrontational: a blood-and-guts campaign speech, blood-and-guts football.
The phrase can also mean raw courage or fighting spirit: She had the blood and guts to say what no one else would.
- gorefestExcessively bloody entertainment
- carnageWidespread violent death
- brutalitySavage, merciless behavior
- entrailsInternal digestive organs
- gruesomenessState of being horrifying
viscera · violence · gladiatorial · horror · graphic · slaughterhouse · practical effects · gory details · no holds barred · bare knuckle · innards · ferocious · savage · primal · red meat · flesh · combat · war movie
blood and gutsbloodless
Without shedding any gore
sanitized · family-friendly · wholesome · non-violent · nonviolent
blood and gutspeace
Freedom from disturbance
love · gentleness · hearts and flowers · sweetness and light · peace and love
blood and gutsdiplomacy
Negotiation between nations
peacekeeping · nonviolence · pacifism · restraint · moderation
blood, guts, bloody, bleeding, bloodline, bloodshed, blooded, bloodless, bloodthirsty