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have the guts
Idioms and Phrases
Possess the courage, as in Does he have the guts to dive off the high board? This expression replaces the earlier and now obsolete sense of stomach as âcourage,â a usage from the early 1500s. [ Slang ; late 1800s]Example Sentences
Before they met, Dresdner remembers seeing Zapata on campus and feeling âinspired and intimidatedâ by her but says he didnât have âthe gutsâ to talk to her.
âI mean pay them, pay them what theyâre worth. Absolutely. But these people who have such a burden in their hearts for helping people, they work way past their shift time if they need to, they do things that the rest of us do not have the guts to do nor the stomach to perform.â
But I would like to think that if some famous loon were to capture the imagination of Democratic voters and he or she threatened the future of the nation, I would have the guts to oppose him or her and throw my lot in with the saner other party.
âPresident Trump flew to Chicago, took tough question after tough question from the press, and crushed it. Kamala didnât have the guts to show up,â wrote Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley on social media.
âI wanted to be that kind of man. I just didnât have the guts to do what they were doing at the time that they were doing it, and it means a lot to me because they were drinking milk and I was drinking alcohol.â
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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