Usually means: Traits shared among family members.
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  1. run in the family: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. run in the family: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. run in the family: Wiktionary

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  1. run in the family: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (run in the family)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic, somewhat derogatory) To be a characteristic feature that is observed in several generations of a family.

Similar:
keep it in the family, live in the shadow of, cousin, hand-me-down, auntie, sister, coinherit, filiate, father, have one's number on it, more...

Opposite:
not hereditary, sporadic, isolated, non-genetic

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Similar:
keep it in the family, live in the shadow of, cousin, hand-me-down, auntie, sister, coinherit, filiate, father, have one's number on it, more...

Opposite:
not hereditary, sporadic, isolated, non-genetic



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