To make a man bleed is to make him pay dearly for something; to
victimise him. Money is the life-blood of commerce. It makes my
heart bleed. It makes me very sorrowful. She found them indeed,
But it made her heart bleed. Bleeding of a Dead Body (The). It
was at one time believed that, at the approach of a murderer,
the blood of the murdered body gushed out. If in a dead body the
slightest change was observable in the eyes, mouth, feet, or
hands, the murderer was supposed to be present. The notion still
survives in some places. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Bleed from Infoplease: 24 X 7
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