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
RomÁN	-	Hungarian
Jin	-	Chinese
Enkhjargal	-	Mongolian
Johana	-	Czech
Giampiero	jahm-PYE-ro	Italian
Marianne	mah-ree-AH-nə (German), MAH-ree-ahn-ne (Finnish)	French, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish