sporting blood

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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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Words nearby sporting blood

sporter, sport fish, sportfisherman, sportfishing, sporting, sporting blood, sporting chance, sporting dog, sporting house, sporting lady, sportive

How to use sporting blood in a sentence

Though King George inherits the diplomatic qualities of his father, he has little sporting blood in him.
Ways of War and Peace|Delia Austrian
Jerry could not be restrained, for his sporting blood demanded that he keep going all the while.
The Outdoor Chums After Big Game|Captain Quincy Allen
Now's the time to show whether they've got any sporting blood or not.
Fore!|Charles Emmett Van Loan
In every drop of the blue blood of St. Louis there is a bubble of sporting blood.
The Cassowary|Stanley Waterloo

Prize-fighters, as a matter of course, were attracted to a place where sporting blood ran so high.
The Life of Bret Harte|Henry Childs Merwin