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run in the blood
Idioms and Phrases
Also, run in the family . Be characteristic of a family or passed on from one generation to the next, as in That happy-go-lucky trait runs in the blood , or Big ears run in the family . The first term dates from the early 1600s, the second from the late 1700s.Example Sentences
Thought it would run in the blood, but I guess not.
Every time Scoob hears it, he wants to say: Being criminally minded doesn’t run in the blood either.
This apathy does not run in the blood.
“Bet you can fix a car up too, if you care to. Things like that run in the blood.”
Cricket appears to run in the blood for one County Londonderry family who have made history twice in one week.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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