be in the/sb's blood
If an ability or skill is in someone's blood, they have it naturally, usually because it already exists in their family:
His father and grandmother were painters too, so it's obviously in the blood.
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Family: ancestors & descendants
- ancestor
- ancestry
- blood
- blood is thicker than water idiom
- bloodline
- descend
- descent
- family tree
- forbear
- forebear
- forefathers
- genealogy
- generation
- heraldry
- lineage
- pedigree
- run
- run in the family idiom
- stock
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