sporting blood

Idioms  

1. 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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Example Sentences

The eight-time world champion, has sporting blood coursing through his veins and was born the day his father won a local speed skating championship in his home town, the northeastern port city of Tianjin.

From Reuters

In my veins flows sporting blood, but only in the Darwinian sense am I a "sport," a deviation from the normal history of my family, which has always been devoted to athletic pleasures.

From Project Gutenberg

Rich or poor, great or small, everybody with a drop of sporting blood in his veins likes it, even if he can’t play it.

From Project Gutenberg

All the sporting blood Lil Artha possessed was on fire at the sight.

From Project Gutenberg

"It has the stir and go of a healthy sporting blood."

From Project Gutenberg