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The phrase, butterflies in your stomach comes from the Oxford English Dictionary in 1908. The phrase means having a jittery feeling in the stomach due to anxiety or excitement.

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Is the phrase butterflies in your stomach a idiom or a metaphor?

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Why is the nervous feeling you get called the butterflies?

It is a phrase used when you are nervous because the fluttery feeling in your stomach is said to feel like butterflies. so if i say a sentence that i`m nervous so instead of that we can say there r butterflies in my stomach.


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When I think about my crush ill have butterflies in my stomach Will he have butterflies in his stomach?

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How do you use butterflies in your stomach in a sentence?

I felt butterflies in my stomach as I walked onto the stage to give my speech.


Do butterflies in your stomach have anything to do with your stomach?

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What does it mean 'you give me butterflies?

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Can you give a sample sentence using the idiom butterflies in my stomach?

"I'm so nervous about tonight i have 'Butterflies in my stomach'."


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