gut response

gut response

A reaction to a situation based on a person's instinct and feelings, rather than on a logical analysis. My initial gut response was that the merger would result in a drop in stock prices, but the opposite turned out to be true.
See also: gut, response
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • a gut reaction
  • gut reaction
  • gut reaction to (something)
  • gut reaction to something
  • gut feeling
  • a gut feeling
  • gut instinct
  • go with (one's) gut
  • my gut tells me
  • pearly
References in periodicals archive
For whatever issue you are considering, you must first of all note down your initial gut response. Now act like your fiercest critic and try to think from the opposite point of view.
As I reflected on my gut response to that as a MeToo-er, I came to realize what that gut turmoil was about.
Artificial sweeteners alter gut response to glucose (Abstract).
This last phrase was my gut response to all the furore that seemed to explode around me painting over a UKIP poster in Digbeth.
This also gives evidence supporting the role of CRF pathways in the gut response to stress in IBS patients.
Is there any real difference between that gut response from a of a breed might Little Scotlanders tenement window and of the more sophisticated response to the views of Lady Louise Richardson, the principal of St Andrews University.
Very rarely does a rst encounter with another politician produce a strange feeling of intestinal discomfort in me - the "Ycha" gut response, " gut response, Y is all I can call it - sorry I can't translate that.
and if just having more convenient computer-based testing (CBT) with more testing locations grows the CFP headcount, that's great."However, he said that "the issue of why it has to be a 6-hour CBT instead of a 10-hour CBT is less clear." The CFP Board "maintains it wasn't making the exam easier; the gut response of the community seems to disagree, and the initial reaction of test-takers who are excited about the shorter exam would certainly confirm at least the PERCEPTION that it's going to be easier."
But when we react based on our initial, gut response, and don't take the time to learn about the issues, we are doing ourselves a disservice.
"The gut response was to seeing people drowning and dying was to dive in and try save them but to do that would have been suicide.Scarred for life, what can I say, pretty much haunted by few visions, I have got some very disturbing imagery in my head".
"We were just flat," said defenseman Derek Morris, clearly upset with his team's gut response. "We can't be flat, we can't come out the way we came out.
Most of us have intuitions about this sort of thing, whether in our enthusiasm (or lack of it) for Kevin Warwick, or in our gut response to gene therapy, artificial intelligence, embryonic stem cell research, or nanotechnology.
As a registered Independent, I switch allegiances based on my gut response to a candidate's stated position, his voting record ...
Despite the fact that these companies install more remodeling products than anyone else in the U.S., most remodelers' gut response is to avoid any association with an organization that wants to be seen as the lowest cost in town.