young blood

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young blood (countable and uncountable, plural young bloods) (idiomatic)

(uncountable) Young or youthful people, especially as a source of revitalizing force (in a team, organization, etc.).
Synonyms: fresh blood, new blood, youth
- 1862 August – 1863 March, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, London, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., published 1863, →OCLC:
  Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
(countable) A young person (especially a man); also as a term of address.
Alternative form: youngblood
- 1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 4, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 46:
  Every Saturday evening, raw young bloods of the village would meet for a drink, and the wine made us lively. We stuck a sprig of basil behind our ears, one of my cousins took his guitar, and we went serenading.
(uncountable) Youthful, revitalizing, or youth-oriented ideas.