Your work product becomes dependent on the insight and guts of the person giving you an assignment.

He tried to do it on guts and enthusiasm.

He was doing much of it on guts alone.

Whole families lived on the bones and guts he distributed to them.

Robert Nelson, the station owner, had tried to convince staff to concentrate on "blood and guts".

I thought they were both being silly but you had to score Martha a ten on sheer guts.

He was out of numbers now, running on guts and nerves of steel.

"Our defense was just playing on guts," Phillips said.

She had no further plan- the rest of the way would have to be on guts and luck.

I was definitely moving on sheer guts that day.