in one's blood

1. Also, in the blood. Part of one's essential nature. For example, The whole family loves music; it's in their blood, or Sailing somehow gets in your blood. Also see run in the blood.

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Perhaps then, being an author is just in one's blood.

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A device known as a pulse oximeter, which can measure the oxygen levels in one's blood within seconds after being clipped to one's finger or another body part, is becoming a hot new commodity during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Having the right antibodies to the virus in one’s blood — a potential marker of immunity — may soon determine who gets to work and who does not, who is locked down and who is free.

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Once one gets the virus in one's blood, it's likely to break out any time.

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It was I who built up for her the dream pictures of England—the England of my childhood—the London which, once it is in one's blood, is there forever.

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