take guts

Frequency: 7.814.2 per million words

for an action to require courage and determination

gutVERB + guts (courage)

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Examples (10)

  • It takes guts to keep on running even though you have blistered feet.
  • It takes guts to start your own business from scratch.
  • Admitting you were wrong in front of everyone takes real guts.
  • It took a lot of guts for her to quit her stable job and travel the world.
  • It will take guts to challenge the board's decision, but someone has to do it.
  • Do you think it takes guts to speak out against injustice?
  • Challenging the system from within takes a special kind of guts.
  • What he did took more guts than I could ever imagine.
  • Wow, it takes guts to wear an outfit like that to a formal event.
  • Reporting the corruption in her department took incredible guts, as she risked her career.