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have the guts
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 | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Terzo | | TER-tso | Italian |
| Parthenope | | - | Greek Mythology |
| Rina (3) | | - | Indian, Hindi, Marathi |
| Gustav | | GOO-stahf (German) | Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German |
| 'Ismat | | - | Arabic |
| Jeanne | | ZHAHN (French), JEEN (English) | French, English |