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
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
Director Amat Escalante – a more explicitly political blood brother to Mexico's current king of neo-realist weirdness, Carlos Reygadas – has shot a damning indictment of contemporary Mexico, capturing its institutionalised corruption, its endemic cruelty.
From The Guardian • May 16, 2013
Most of the stories we have, however, concern two gods, Odin and his son Thor, and Odin’s blood brother, a giant’s son called Loki, who lives with the Aesir in Asgard.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
