血ちの涙なみだ

expression, noun

bitter tears; tears of blood

Figurative expression for tears shed in extreme grief, anguish, or hardship. The literal meaning 'tears of blood' is also understood but the phrase is almost always used figuratively.

• 彼かれは血ちの涙なみだを流ながす思おもいで、家か族ぞくと別わかれた。

  He parted from his family with bitter tears.

• その話はなしを聞きいて、血ちの涙なみだが出でるほど悲かなしかった。

  Hearing that story, I was so sad I could have wept tears of blood.