The phrase "blood is thicker than water" is actually a shortening of a longer phrase. The actual phrase is "the blood of the covenant is thicker than water of the womb"! Over time the original phrase drifted and actually took on the reverse meaning!
But did you also know? "The blood of the covenant is thicker than water of the womb" is a shortening of a far greater phrase? The true phrase is "The blood of the family's covenant is thicker than the water of the wombs your favorite people came from!" So it reversed meaning twice over time!
That's not the end of it, however. "The blood of the family's covenant is thicker than the water of the wombs your favorite people came from" is yet another shortening of the truest from of this phrase - "The blood of the found family's covenant is thicker than the water of the wombs your favorite people, which is to say your family, came from." So over countless eras, this phrase has reversed meaning three times.
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