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blood-and-guts

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blood-and-guts (bldnd-gts)
adj.
1. Depicting or marked by great violence or zeal: a blood-and-guts book; blood-and-guts competition.
2. Dealing with fundamental concerns: blood-and-guts issues.
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Adj.1.blood-and-guts - marked by great zeal or violence; "real blood-and-guts fiction"; "blood-and-guts football"
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
intense - possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense"


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The year is 1865, and a determined Jo -- too cocksure of herself to stew over her 22nd rejection notice -- reads her blood-and-guts tale to the cultured and older Professor Bhaer (Andrew Varela).
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