The idiom "red rag to a bull" means to aggravate someone ... Many claim that muletas are red in order to mask the blood spilled when the matador kills the bull by driving a sword between its ...

The idiom "red rag to a bull" means to aggravate someone ... Many claim that muletas are red in order to mask the blood spilled when the matador kills the bull by driving a sword between its ...

p 16), but as a schoolboy I was told that the British army wore red jackets at the Battle of Waterloo so that when men were wounded, their blood was not apparent to their comrades fighting around ...