feeling

a feeling about (someone or something)

A sense or premonition about someone or something, whether good or ill. I don't know, I just have a feeling about her—I think she's the right one for the job. Mom says she has a feeling about the flight—she doesn't think we should go.
See also: feeling

a/the feeling (that) (something is/will be the case)

A sense or premonition that something is, will, or might be the case. I had a feeling you would call! The whole thing left me with the feeling that the situation wasn't over yet. I get the feeling that you aren't happy with my work.
See also: feeling, will
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

*feeling (that something is the case)

 and *a feeling about something
a premonition that [something might happen or be the case]; an intuition about something. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.) I had a feeling that you might be dropping by this afternoon. I didn't have any facts to support it. I just had a feeling.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See:
  • a feeling about (someone or something)
  • a gut feeling
  • a sinking feeling
  • a/that sinking feeling
  • a/the feeling (that) (something is/will be the case)
  • Are you feeling better?
  • bad feeling
  • bad/ill feeling
  • beyond feeling
  • bottle up feelings, to
  • feel (like) (oneself)
  • feel (one's) legs
  • feel (one's) oats
  • feel (one's) way
  • feel (something) with (something)
  • feel a draft
  • feel a glow of contentment
  • feel a glow of happiness
  • feel a glow of satisfaction
  • feel about (for someone or something)
  • feel all the feels
  • feel around (for someone or something)
  • feel as if a cat has kittened in (one's) mouth
  • feel at home
  • feel bad
  • feel bad about (something)
  • feel blue
  • feel down
  • feel duty bound to (do something)
  • feel fit
  • feel groovy
  • feel guilty
  • feel hard done-by
  • feel honored
  • feel hot and cold
  • feel it in (one's) bones
  • feel light-headed
  • feel like
  • feel like a million
  • feel like a million bucks
  • feel like a million dollars
  • feel like a new person
  • feel like death
  • feel like death warmed over
  • feel like death warmed up
  • feel like jelly
  • feel like new
  • feel no pain
  • feel on top of the world
  • feel out
  • feel out of humour
  • feel out of place
  • feel out of sorts
  • feel out of things
  • feel pinched
  • feel puny
  • feel sick at heart
  • feel sick to (one's) stomach
  • feel small
  • feel sorry for (oneself)
  • feel strange
  • feel the draught
  • feel the pinch
  • feel the pulse of (something)
  • feel up
  • feel up to (something)
  • feeling
  • feeling (one's) moxie
  • feeling no pain
  • feeling OK
  • feeling okay
  • feeling okay?
  • feeling one's Moxie
  • feeling puny
  • funny feeling
  • get the feeling
  • get/have the feeling
  • gut feeling
  • hard feelings
  • have (any/no) feelings about (someone or something)
  • have feelings about
  • have mixed feelings
  • have mixed feelings (about something)
  • have no hard feelings
  • have the feeling
  • How are you feeling?
  • How you feeling?
  • hurt feelings
  • I just have this feeling
  • ill feeling
  • mixed feelings
  • no hard feelings
  • not any hard feelings
  • not feel (oneself)
  • not feeling (oneself)
  • not feeling oneself
  • relieve (one's) feelings
  • relieve your feelings
  • sinking feeling
  • sinking feeling, a
  • spare (one's) feelings
  • spare somebody's feelings
  • that feeling when
  • that Monday morning feeling
  • the feeling is mutual
  • wake up feeling human
References in classic literature
But the answer to our second question, namely as to what we are feeling when we say a thing "occurs" or is "real," must be somewhat different.
The believing is a specific feeling or sensation or complex of sensations, different from expectation or bare assent in a way that makes the belief refer to the past; the reference to the past lies in the belief-feeling, not in the content believed.
In that case, if we are merely remembering that something of which we now have an image occurred, the content consists of (a) the image, (b) the feeling, analogous to respect, which we translate by saying that something is "real" as opposed to "imaginary," (c) a relation between the image and the feeling of reality, of the sort expressed when we say that the feeling refers to the image.
the time-determination lies in the nature of the belief feeling, which is that called "remembering" or (better) "recollecting." It is only subsequent reflection upon this reference to the past that makes us realize the distinction between the image and the event recollected.
The Analysis of Mind
I know that's what they'll feel, and I can't help feeling a little of it myself.
The hands were clasped once more, and Adam left the Hermitage, feeling that sorrow was more bearable now hatred was gone.
He knew that tree well; it was the boundary mark of his youth--the sign, to him, of the time when some of his earliest, strongest feelings had left him.
Adam Bede
Enough has been said, I trust, to shew that Recognition by Feeling is not so tedious or indecisive a process as might have been supposed; and it is obviously more trustworthy than Recognition by hearing.
Flatland
The feelings which, you tell me, have long prevented the acknowledgment of your regard, can have little difficulty in overcoming it after this explanation."
Had not my feelings decided against you-- had they been indifferent, or had they even been favourable, do you think that any consideration would tempt me to accept the man who has been the means of ruining, perhaps for ever, the happiness of a most beloved sister?"
"From the very beginning-- from the first moment, I may almost say-- of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry."
Pride and Prejudice
He said he had been feeling very lonely in his trial; but I think he would have borne it all better if he had been able to be quite open with you."
She was too much preoccupied with her own anxiety, to be aware that Rosamond was trembling too; and filled with the need to express pitying fellowship rather than rebuke, she put her hands on Rosamond's, and said with more agitated rapidity,--"I know, I know that the feeling may be very dear--it has taken hold of us unawares--it is so hard, it may seem like death to part with it--and we are weak--I am weak--"
She stopped in speechless agitation, not crying, but feeling as if she were being inwardly grappled.
Middlemarch
It was a long, wellwritten letter, giving the particulars of his journey and of his feelings, expressing all the affection, gratitude, and respect which was natural and honourable, and describing every thing exterior and local that could be supposed attractive, with spirit and precision.
Emma