lifeblood
noun[U]
uk/ˈlaɪf.blʌd/us/ˈlaɪf.blʌd/the thing that is mostimportantto thecontinuingsuccessandexistenceof somethingelse:
命脉,生命线Tourism is the lifeblood of Hawaii'seconomy.旅游业是夏威夷的经济命脉。
Important and essential things
- -based
- amenity
- bare
- be-all
- big league
- focal point
- foreground
- fulcrum
- fundament
- grandaddy
- heavyweight
- hot button
- imperative
- need
- nexus
- nub
- nucleus
- precondition
- the grandaddy ofsomethingidiom
- the name of the gameidiom