Idiom
gut feeling
Meaning
An instinct or intuition; an immediate or basic feeling or reaction without a logical rationale.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I have a gut feeling that something is wrong.”
“She had a gut feeling about the deal, so she decided not to sign the contract.”
“Though he could cite no evidence, a persistent gut feeling warned him that the stranger was not to be trusted.”
Examples
simple
“I have a gut feeling that something is wrong.”
contextual
“She had a gut feeling about the deal, so she decided not to sign the contract.”
complex
“Though he could cite no evidence, a persistent gut feeling warned him that the stranger was not to be trusted.”
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