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The appetite that skips the table and goes straight for the throat.
means An intense, often uncontrollable craving for violence, killing, or savage triumph over others.
from From German Blutlust, literally blood-pleasure, stitched into English in the 1800s when poets wanted a word for the joy of the kill.
Not just humanPredators surplus-kill far beyond hunger when prey panics.
Sports loopholeCrowds chant for it legally in boxing rings.
Roman appetiteColosseum sold death as mass entertainment for centuries.