sporting blood



sporting blood

Willingness to take risks, as in His sporting blood won't let him stay away from the races. This idiom uses sporting in the sense of "associated with gambling."
See also: blood, sporting

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
TealeTEELEnglish (Rare)
Arnason['a:nəsn]
KacieKAY-seeEnglish (Modern)
ElinaE-lee-nah (Finnish), e-LEE-nah (Swedish)Finnish, Swedish
Naia-Basque
Sigibert-Ancient Germanic