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in one's blood

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  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.

From Salon Jan. 1, 2022

In fact, to some of us, now in manhood, there is scarcely a greater pleasure of the senses than to gratify "the savage in one's blood," and lead a wild life in the woods.

From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Charles Loring Brace

It comes to men on the Canadian prairies; it throbs in one's blood when the summit of a mountain is reached; it is borne on the wings of the twilight harmonies in a lonely forest.

From The Parts Men Play by Arthur Beverley Baxter

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

From The Tigress by Anne Warner

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.

From I Walked in Arden by Jack Crawford

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