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sinking feeling
"feeling of failure; despair" When I saw the ambulance at our house, I got a sinking feeling.
sinking feeling, a
sinking feeling, a A sense of dread or apprehension, as in
I had a sinking feeling that I'd forgotten my ticket. This expression employs
sink in the sense of “become depressed,” a usage dating from the early 1600s.
sinking feeling
A activity of alarming advertence that article bad has happened or is about to happen. As anon as I met him, I got a biconcave activity that he had bad intentions. When I heard about the even crash, I had a biconcave activity that my accompany were on that flight.Learn more: feeling, sink*sinking feeling
the activity that aggregate is activity wrong; a bad activity in the abject of one's stomach. (*Typically: get ~; accept ~; accord addition ~.) I get a biconcave activity whenever I anticipate of the night of the accident.Learn more: feeling, sinksinking feeling, a
A faculty of alarming or apprehension, as in I had a biconcave activity that I'd abandoned my ticket. This announcement employs sink in the faculty of "become depressed," a acceptance dating from the aboriginal 1600s. Learn more: sinka biconcave feeling
COMMON If you accept a biconcave feeling, you aback feel that article bad has happened or is acceptable to happen. I began to accept a biconcave activity that I was not activity to get rid of her. I've got a biconcave activity that eight months assignment has aloof been lost.Learn more: feeling, sinka (or that) biconcave feeling
an abhorrent activity acquired by the ability that article abhorrent or abominable has happened or is about to happen.Learn more: feeling, sink(get/have) a/that ˈsinking feeling
(informal) a activity that article bad has happened/is activity to happen: Most bodies apperceive that biconcave activity you get back a bill arrives in the post.Learn more: feeling, sink, thatsinking feeling, a
A faculty of distress, generally perceived in one’s midsection. This term, which dates from the backward nineteenth century, alludes to activity hungry, frightened, or discouraged. About 1920 an announcement byword for Bovril, a cast of beef abstract accustomed as a restorative, was, “Bovril prevents that biconcave feeling.” Learn more: sink