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sporting blood

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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Nearby words

sport-utility vehicle, sporter, sportfisherman, sportfishing, sporting, sporting blood, sporting chance, sporting chance, a, sporting dog, sporting house, sporting lady
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