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
Ewout	AY-vowt, AY-wowt	Dutch
Ida	IE-də (English), EE-dah (German, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Italian)	English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Slovene
Alethea	al-ə-THEE-ə, ə-LEE-thee-ə	English
YasİN	-	Turkish
Deonte	-	African American (Modern)
Sati	-	Hinduism