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run in the blood



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, run in the family . Be characteristic of a family or passed on from one generation to the next, as in That happy-go-lucky trait runs in the blood , or Big ears run in the family . The first term dates from the early 1600s, the second from the late 1700s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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