run in the family
A1CEFR level
10/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister
To be a condition or trait that occurs in several members of the same family, suggesting a hereditary component.
You mentioned diabetes runs in the family — was that on your mother's or your father's side?
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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