I had a kind of feeling this
fixed phr..fixed phr.. you use this to say you had a vague idea or a small suspicion that something was true or would happen.
fixed phr.. an idiomatic expression used to indicate a premonition or a subjective, non-specific intuition regarding a situation.
I had a kind of feeling this would happen.
I had a kind of feeling this project might be delayed, so I started early.
Although no one had explicitly mentioned the upcoming layoffs, I had a kind of feeling this was the reason for the sudden emergency meeting.
often followed by a clause starting with 'that' or a direct statement of the suspicion.
focus on the hedging function of 'a kind of'; it softens the speaker's certainty and makes the intuition sound more humble or less analytical.
I had a kind feeling this.I had a kind of feeling this.the word 'of' is necessary to link 'kind' to 'feeling' in this idiomatic structure.