in one's blood
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Perhaps then, being an author is just in one's blood.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2022
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
Once one gets the virus in one's blood, it's likely to break out any time.
From The Tigress by Anne Warner
One has a craving in one's blood, a craving roused, cut off from its redeeming and guiding emotional side.
From Ann Veronica, a modern love story by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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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