blood brother
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Riding shotgun was Sumlin’s military blood brother, Sgt. 1st Class Jason Jarvis, a soldier on active-duty from Fort Bragg’s 18th Ordnance Company in North Carolina — Sumlin’s old unit.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2021
It’s also an origin story for Tomisaburo, or Storm Shadow — the prominent hero/villain and blood brother to Snake Eyes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2021
It opens with the lines: “My blood brother is an immigrant / A beautiful immigrant.”
From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2020
He feels he must go to save Bon, his blood brother, from dying in what he’s sure will be a suicide mission.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2015
Kvasir said, “It is true that Loki is a blood brother to the gods, and we cannot kill him. But we are bound by no such oaths to you, his sons.”
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
