Definition of bloody shirt
: something intended to stir up or revive partisan animosity
—usually used in the phrase wave the bloody shirt
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To some Republican strategists, waving the bloody shirt of impeachment is unwise — at least this early in the election season.
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So basically, if there was some corroborating evidence — the knife was found, there was DNA, or a bloody shirt or something — that would have established it more clearly.
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Investigators also found a bloody shirt in the bathroom of a nearby gas station.
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Abiding by the age-old custom, the Berisha matriarch hangs her dead son’s bloody shirt up on the family clothesline.
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Investigators found the bodies, the tire iron and the bloody shirt.
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Investigators found the bodies, the tire iron and the bloody shirt.
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Investigators found the bodies, the tire iron and the bloody shirt.
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Investigators found the bodies, the tire iron and the bloody shirt.
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First Known Use of bloody shirt
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