Catchword: blood and treasure

Filed under: English, Military, Colloquial

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: As a discussion of the Iraq War grows longer (and more heated), it becomes more and more likely that someone will invoke the phrase “blood and treasure.” This olde-tyme expression, popular with Jefferson and Monroe in the 18th and 19th centuries—and Cromwell long before that—first crept into the Iraq debate a couple of years ago and quickly went viral. B&T has now become the go-to cliché for journalists, bloggers, politicians or anyone else who finds himself getting clobbered in an Iraq argument and is groping around for a little rhetorical juice to disarm the other side.

Article or document title:
“The Iraq War’s Go-To Cliché” (URL)

Author:
Weston Kosova

Article, document, publication, web site:
Newsweek

Date of publication:
Sept. 14, 2007

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