have the guts

Possess the courage, as in Does he have the guts to dive off the high board? This expression replaces the earlier and now obsolete sense of stomach as "courage," a usage from the early 1500s. [Slang; late 1800s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Wynonna	wi-NON-ə	English (Rare)
Jaden	JAY-dən	English (Modern)
Joakim	YO-ah-kim (Swedish), YO-ah-keem (Finnish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Serbian, Macedonian
FechÍN	FE-kheen	Irish
Petrus	PE-truws (German)	Dutch, German, Biblical Latin
Arie (2)	ahr-YE	Hebrew