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sporting blood
Idioms and Phrases
Willingness to take risks, as in His sporting blood won't let him stay away from the races . This idiom uses sporting in the sense of “associated with gambling.â€Example Sentences
The eight-time world champion, has sporting blood coursing through his veins and was born the day his father won a local speed skating championship in his home town, the northeastern port city of Tianjin.
In my veins flows sporting blood, but only in the Darwinian sense am I a "sport," a deviation from the normal history of my family, which has always been devoted to athletic pleasures.
Rich or poor, great or small, everybody with a drop of sporting blood in his veins likes it, even if he can’t play it.
All the sporting blood Lil Artha possessed was on fire at the sight.
"It has the stir and go of a healthy sporting blood."
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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 Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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