run in the family
If a quality, ability, disease, etc. runs in the family, many members of the family have it:
Intelligence seems to run in that family.
We're all ambitious - it seems to run in the family.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Family: ancestors & descendants
- ancestor
- ancestry
- be in the/sb's blood idiom
- blood
- blood is thicker than water idiom
- bloodline
- descendant
- descent
- family tree
- forbear
- forebear
- genealogist
- genealogy
- generation
- heraldry
- lineage
- pedigree
- run
- stock
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