Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term
Blood fire
A-I mean, you don't know him like I do, you know.
A-I think I better just do what he wants and go back home.
B-And forget about your team mates?
B-Blood fire.
B-The man, you act like he's the king of the whole world.
I think it's a Jamaican term, but is it the equivalent of the F word? Or perhaps it means something like 'impossible', unbelievable, etc?
| 3 +2 | term of extreme excitement (unbelievable is ok) |
Clauwolf
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| mild curse term |
Yvonne Gallagher
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Feb 17, 2022 17:07: Clauwolf changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1129580">Mohamed Fouda's</a> old entry - "Blood fire"" to ""term of extreme excitement (unbelievable is ok)""
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term of extreme excitement (unbelievable is ok)
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philgoddard
: You need to Google it, Mohamed. It's the first hit.
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Tina Vonhof (X)
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Yvonne Gallagher
: "term of extreme excitement" is really not suitable for glossary form. 1 word: "Unbelievable!"
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Reference comments
Ireland
right word, right place. everytime
Native in: English (Variants: US, Canadian, Irish, UK) 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
mild curse term
Holy shit!
Jamaican slang
https://jamaicanpatwah.com/term/Blood-Fiah/916#.YgvGZlXP2po
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Note added at 4 hrs (2022-02-15 17:12:12 GMT)
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I for one didn't know this expression before though I think it is fairly easy to get the meaning.
This may have originated from more common English expressions like "hot-blooded"
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/
or
all fired up, fire in the blood, blood's boiling
basically meaning passionate but in some contexts can mean irate or angry
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Guilherme Zeitune
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Thanks!
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Alaíde Assunção
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Many thanks:-)
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