NOT the scientific definition, instead the common idiom, of course.
be in (one's) DNA
To be a core aspect of one's character, motivation, or lineage; to be an intrinsic or fundamental part of one.
He's always been that way, ever since he was a small boy. Helping others just seems to be in his...
I had a narrow financial escape, early this summer.
WFH one day, there was a knock at the door, it was two 30 year old gentlemen with southern Irish accents. "They'd spotted a loose hip roof tile, were working on an old gents house down the road, did I want them to have a free look at it...
This country is more interested in the human rights of these burglars, thieves, defrauders of the old. A typical other move, people in hospitality have told me, is to feast on a huge meal at a restaurant, then an in-ya-face "I'm not paying because there was something wrong with the food"...