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Like this video? Subscribe to our free daily email and get a new idiom video every day! have the guts (to do something)To have enough courage, conviction, or resolve (to do something). You're always talking about quitting your job, but I don't think you have the guts. I know it can be difficult, but you've got to have the guts to stand up for your beliefs! Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved. have the gutsPossess the courage, as in Does he have the guts to dive off the high board? This expression replaces the earlier and now obsolete sense of stomach as "courage," a usage from the early 1500s. [Slang; late 1800s] The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. have the ˈguts (to do something)(informal) have the courage (to do something): She didn’t have the guts to tell him she was going to move out. ♢ He’ll never agree to sail across the Atlantic with you. He hasn’t got the guts. ▶ ˈgutsy adj.: a gutsy fighterFarlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
have the guts (to do something)Like this video? Subscribe to our free daily email and get a new idiom video every day! have the guts (to do something)To have enough courage, conviction, or resolve (to do something). You're always talking about quitting your job, but I don't think you have the guts. I know it can be difficult, but you've got to have the guts to stand up for your beliefs! See also: gut, have Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2015 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved. have the gutsPossess the courage, as in Does he have the guts to dive off the high board? This expression replaces the earlier and now obsolete sense of stomach as "courage," a usage from the early 1500s. [Slang; late 1800s] See also: gut, have The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. have the ˈguts (to do something)(informal) have the courage (to do something): She didnt have the guts to tell him she was going to move out. Hell never agree to sail across the Atlantic with you. He hasnt got the guts. ˈgutsy adj.: a gutsy fighterSee also: gut, have Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
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