Check out /bunnytrailspod to learn how you can join the Patrons of Bunny Trails! I have an example from Shakespeare, but I think we’ll save that for the behind the scenes video - available to Patrons at every level. Tis not true valors pride, To swagger, quarrell, sweare, stampe, raue, and chide. O.i Yong bloods be strong: old sires in double honour dwell.ġ602 John Marston - No Red Dead fans… not that John Marston, the poet and playwright John Marston active in the late 1500s and early 1600s. in the 18th cent.) a rake, a dandy an unruly young aristocratġ557 Earl of Surrey et al. a confident, high-spirited young man (esp. We are, instead, talking about the idiomatic usage of these two words to form an entirely new concept.Ī lively or energetic young person spec. And no, we aren’t talking about infants, nor are we talking about vampires. This week we look at the phrase Young Blood. Pulling readers into the captivating immediacy of a conflict that can shift from drudgery to devastation at any moment, Youngblood provides startling new dimension to both the moral complexity of war and its psychological toll. ( From the publisher.Welcome to Bunny Trails, a whimsical adventure of idioms and other turns of phrase.Įvery week, we take an idiom, or other turn of phrase, and try to tell the story from its entry into the English language, to how it’s used today.
Determined to secure a better future for Rana and a legitimate and lasting peace for her country, Jack will defy American command, putting his own future in grave peril.
In search of the truth and buoyed by the knowledge that what he finds may implicate Sergeant Chambers, Jack seeks answers from the enigmatic Rana, and soon their fates become intertwined. The US military is preparing to withdraw from Iraq, and newly-minted lieutenant Jack Porter struggles to accept how it’s happening-through alliances with warlords who have Arab and American blood on their hands.ĭay after day, Jack tries to assert his leadership in the sweltering, dreary atmosphere of Ashuriyah.īut his world is disrupted by the arrival of veteran Sergeant Daniel Chambers, whose aggressive style threatens to undermine the fragile peace that the troops have worked hard to establish.Īs Iraq plunges back into chaos and bloodshed and Chambers’s influence over the men grows stronger, Jack becomes obsessed with a strange, tragic tale of reckless love between a lost American soldier and Rana, a local sheikh’s daughter.
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