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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Tue Mar 8, 2016, 06:56 AM Mar 2016

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"Blood is thicker than water". We use this exactly backwards.

The full phrase is "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb", the sense of which is the exact opposite of how we use the phrase now: guild bonds were supposed to trump family bonds.

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"Blood is thicker than water". We use this exactly backwards. (Original Post) Recursion Mar 2016 OP

I had no idea annabanana Mar 2016 #1

and now THAT is what I learned that's useful today Bucky Mar 2016 #2

And they do. CanSocDem Mar 2016 #3

Interesting point (nt) Recursion Mar 2016 #4

annabanana

(52,791 posts)

1. I had no idea

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 10:20 AM

Mar 2016

where the phrase came from. Very interesting, thank you!

Bucky

(53,986 posts)

2. and now THAT is what I learned that's useful today

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 10:23 AM

Mar 2016

CanSocDem

(3,286 posts)

3. And they do.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 10:59 AM

Mar 2016

"guild bonds were supposed to trump family bonds."

People identify more with what they do than where they came from.

k&r

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Recursion

(56,582 posts)

4. Interesting point (nt)

Reply to CanSocDem (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 10:59 AM

Mar 2016

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