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
Kelly	['keli]
Tracee	TRAY-see	English
Phillip	FIL-ip	English
Leif	LAYF	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Venceslao	-	Italian
Dominykas	-	Lithuanian