butterflies in your stomach

butterflies in (one's) stomach

A feeling of nervousness. The butterflies in my stomach almost kept me from going on stage and performing.
See also: butterfly, stomach
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

butterflies in your stomach

If you have butterflies in your stomach, you feel very nervous about something that you have to do. He seemed so full of enthusiasm that I felt foolish still having butterflies in my stomach. Now I can go there as a competitor, I'm starting to feel the butterflies in my stomach already. Note: Butterflies is also used in many other structures and expressions with a similar meaning. Any jockey who says he doesn't get butterflies down at the start is telling lies. Carol felt butterflies tumbling in her guts.
See also: butterfly, stomach
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
See also:
  • butterflies in (one's) stomach
  • butterflies in one's stomach
  • butterflies in stomach
  • get butterflies in (one's) stomach
  • get/have butterflies
  • (one's) stomach is in knots
  • food baby
  • settle (one's) stomach
  • settle stomach
  • berp
References in periodicals archive
'It gives you the butterflies in your stomach,' Gasol said of the rousing welcome.
"You have permanent butterflies in your stomach. I do not envy him.
Couples like them worry about access to schooling or renting an apartment, and marriage, that ever-shifting terrain of love forever, butterflies in your stomach, and property ownership, can feel frivolous.
"It gives you butterflies in your stomach when you walk out at a stadium like this."
Your breathing becomes faster and shallower, your heart pumps quicker, your mouth goes dry, you lose your appetite, get palpitations or a sensation of butterflies in your stomach, and you sweat or blush as blood vessels and capillaries move to the skin's surface.
Stomach butterflies scramble EGGs Butterflies in your stomach aren't all in your head, according to Larry VandeCreek.