/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · Claret
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Blood. To broach one’s claret To give one a bloody nose; so called from the claret colour.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.