in one's blood
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Perhaps then, being an author is just in one's blood.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2022
And one knows it all in one's blood, it is pure, sun-dried memory.
From Twilight in Italy by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Once one gets the virus in one's blood, it's likely to break out any time.
From The Tigress by Anne Warner
The influence of summer is like a poison in one's blood, with a sudden bewildered sickening of life and all things.
From Aesthetic Poetry by Walter Pater
When one has got the passion for the chase in one's blood, one cannot bide for long in a stuffy office.
From The Lost Naval Papers by Bennet Copplestone
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