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Definitions for bad blood

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

bad′ blood′(n.)

  1. (n.)unfriendly or hostile relations; enmity.

Origin of bad blood:

1815–25

Princeton's WordNet

  1. animosity, animus, bad blood(noun)

    a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility

Wiktionary

  1. bad blood(Noun)

    Feelings of hostility or ill will.

  2. bad blood(Noun)

    A serious feud or long-standing grudge.

  3. bad blood(Noun)

    An inherited immoral or disturbed nature.

    4. Origin: From Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia (1823).

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