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🇰🇷 South Korea

🩸피땀눈물

/pi-ttam-nun-mul/

피땀눈물, literally “blood, sweat, and tears,” means the intense effort, hardship, and sacrifice behind an achievement. In Korean usage it can be a serious idiom for hard work, and it is also widely recognized as the Korean title of BTS’s song “Blood Sweat & Tears.”
피땀눈물 meaning visual explanation

Examples

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  • "That portfolio is basically my blood, sweat, and tears. Please look at it kindly."
  • "They finally debuted after years of blood, sweat, and tears."
🌀 Multiple origins🌀 MultipleFirst seen 1900

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The Korean phrase 피땀눈물 comes from the long-standing idiomatic pairing of blood, sweat, and tears to describe sacrifice and hard effort. In modern search and pop-culture usage, it is also strongly associated with BTS’s 2016 song “Blood Sweat & Tears,” which helped make the compact unspaced form 피땀눈물 more recognizable to global K-pop audiences.

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