sporting blood

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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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All the sporting blood Lil Artha possessed was on fire at the sight.

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"It has the stir and go of a healthy sporting blood."

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sporting sporting chance

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