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
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