September 11, 2007

Intestinal Fortitude

intestinal fortitude



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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