in the blood



atavistic, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, constitutional, genetic, hereditary, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive,

   balance the books - audit, balance, book, capitalize, carry, carry over, charge off, check, check out, close out, credit, debit, demonstrate, docket, enter,

   round about - about, again, all over, all round, all through, anticlockwise, around, at about, back, backward, by, by way of, circuitously, clockwise, close,

   trekker - adventurer, astronaut, camper, climber, commuter, cruiser, displaced person, emigrant, evacuee, exile, expatriate, explorer, fare, goer, immigrant,

   quadrangular - cubed, cubic, diced, four-square, oblong, orthogonal, quadrilateral, rectangular, rhomboid, square, trapezoid ,

   longed-for - desirable, popular, wanted ,

   break off - agree to disagree, be at cross-purposes, break, clash, collide, conflict, contradict, counter, cut off, differ, disagree, disarrange, discontinue, disjoin, dissent,

   poor bet - bare possibility, dark horse, improbability, long shot, off chance, outside chance, small chance, unlikelihood ,

   umbel - blossom, cone, head, pine cone, spike ,

   stationery store - apothecary, book store, chemist, cigar store, clothier, confectionery, florist, haberdashery, pharmacy, speciality shop, sweet shop, thrift shop, tobacconist ,

   flying phalanger - animal, antelope, armadillo, bat, elephant, hare, horse, kangaroo, mammal, opossum, pig, platypus, rat ,