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."

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ingemar	ING-e-mahr	Swedish
Zilpah	ZIL-pə (English)	Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Pavelu	-	Old Church Slavic
Dobson	['dɔbsn]
ÉImhear	EE-mur	Irish, Irish Mythology
Susanna	soo-ZAHN-nah (Italian), SOO-sahn-nah (Finnish), soo-ZAN-ə (English)	Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Dutch, English, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Old Church Slavic