blood, sweat and tears

Etymology
Popularized through a famous speech made by to the House of Commons in 1940, with slight modification, but already present in earlier poetry.

May be an extension of a much older 🇨🇬 poetic formula ; compare e.g. . It is common in Indo-European oral traditions to juxtapose three bodily substances pertaining to a certain theme, such as  for the internal solids (cf. Calin (2017), pages 143–146).

Noun

 * 1)  A person's determination and hard work.

Translations

 * Cebuano: dugo ug singot
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: blod, sved og tårer
 * Dutch: bloed, zweet en tranen
 * Finnish: verta, hikeä ja kyyneleitä
 * German: Blut, Schweiß und Tränen
 * Italian: sudare sangue
 * Korean: 피 땀 눈물
 * Malay: darah, peluh, dan air mata
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: blod, svette og tårer
 * Nynorsk: blod, sveitte og tårer
 * Polish: krwawica
 * Russian: упорный труд и усердие
 * Spanish: sangre, sudor y lágrimas
 * Swedish: blod, svett och tårar
 * Tagalog: dugo at pawis