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I had a kind of feeling this

idiom
Meaning

you use this to say you had a vague idea or a small suspicion that something was true or would happen.


Examples
SIMPLE

I had a kind of feeling this would happen.

CONTEXTUAL

When the project failed, I told my boss that I had a kind of feeling this might be the result.

COMPLEX

Although the evidence seemed convincing at first, I had a kind of feeling this was merely a clever distraction from the truth.

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