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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How to use sporting blood in a sentence

  • Though King George inherits the diplomatic qualities of his father, he has little sporting blood in him.

    Ways of War and Peace | Delia Austrian
  • Jerry could not be restrained, for his sporting blood demanded that he keep going all the while.

    The Outdoor Chums After Big Game | Captain Quincy Allen
  • Now's the time to show whether they've got any sporting blood or not.

    Fore! | Charles Emmett Van Loan
  • In every drop of the blue blood of St. Louis there is a bubble of sporting blood.

    The Cassowary | Stanley Waterloo
  • Prize-fighters, as a matter of course, were attracted to a place where sporting blood ran so high.

    The Life of Bret Harte | Henry Childs Merwin