Idiom
gut reaction
Meaning
A visceral reaction that arises with little accompanying thought or even (sometimes) no thought.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My gut reaction is to say no.”
“I did not have time to analyze the data, so I followed my gut reaction and chose the first option.”
“While the evidence suggested a logical path forward, his gut reaction warned him that something was fundamentally wrong with the proposal.”
Examples
simple
“My gut reaction is to say no.”
contextual
“I did not have time to analyze the data, so I followed my gut reaction and chose the first option.”
complex
“While the evidence suggested a logical path forward, his gut reaction warned him that something was fundamentally wrong with the proposal.”
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