intestinal fortitude
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ph. (片語 phrase)
1. 勇氣;耐力
The Columbia Guide to Standard American English
gut (n.)
refers to the belly or belly and bowels, as in the Informal and Conversational I have a pain in my gut.
Figuratively, in the plural, the guts are the seat of courage, daring, nerve, and pluck, and the slang term sand, as in She has a lot of guts, and she won't back down.
In this sense the word is Conversational and Informal at best and is therefore frequently and tiresomely replaced by a euphemism and cliché, intestinal fortitude.
Best advice: use guts, courage, determination, or another explicit quality and skip all tired metaphors and frozen figures.
Yahoo!奇摩字典
ph. (片語 phrase)
1. 勇氣;耐力
The Columbia Guide to Standard American English
gut (n.)
refers to the belly or belly and bowels, as in the Informal and Conversational I have a pain in my gut.
Figuratively, in the plural, the guts are the seat of courage, daring, nerve, and pluck, and the slang term sand, as in She has a lot of guts, and she won't back down.
In this sense the word is Conversational and Informal at best and is therefore frequently and tiresomely replaced by a euphemism and cliché, intestinal fortitude.
Best advice: use guts, courage, determination, or another explicit quality and skip all tired metaphors and frozen figures.
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