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单词 with —— in one's veins
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with —— in one's veins
P5. to have —— (running) in one's veins: used to suggest that a particular characteristic, attribute, or interest is ingrained in a person. Similarly with —— in one's veins, etc. Cf. blood n. Phrases 2e.
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1768 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 25 Oct. Arbitrary principles, which were running through the veins of every proper officer in the nation.
1802 Orthodox Churchman's Mag. Sept. 192 Knowing, as we do, the hereditary orthodoxy, which runs in his veins.
1863 Punch 14 Feb. 64/2 Love of all things noble, fair, and good, Ran in his veins.
1869 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. 1 Apr. 169/1 He becomes good by reason that he has not sufficient Satanic fire in his veins to be anything else.
1910 Daily Chron. 4 Jan. 3/1 The true Hispanophil with the cult in his veins.
1912 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 4 Sept. 5/2 A department head or chief..with ice in his veins who will recommend the dismissal of a man of 70 who has served the government the best portion of his life.
1941 Sandusky (Ohio) Reg. Star-News 10 Aug. 16/1 He is described by his friends and associates as having ‘gasoline and motor oil in his veins’.
1999 J. Boyle Hero of Underworld 4 Muscular morons with hate in their veins who have challenged the system with such brute force.
2013 T. Scott Ben Hogan (2015) i. 19 It was a different picture from the insensitive, uncaring man with ice in his veins that the press had presented.
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