“Blood, sweat, and tears.”

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Churchill did use the four-word sequence ‘blood, toil, tears, and sweat’. The shorter popular form drops ‘toil’ and changes the wording of a historically specific speech.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

Earliest traceable appearance in this record: 13 May 1940, Churchill's House of Commons speech.

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