butterflies in stomach

*butterflies in one's stomach

a nervous feeling in one's stomach. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone~.) Whenever I have to speak in public, I get butterflies in my stomach. She always has butterflies in her stomach before a test. It was not frightening enough to give me butterflies in my stomach, but it made me a little apprehensive.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jos	YAWS	Dutch
Pattie	PAT-ee	English
Chance	CHANTS	English
Iohanna	-	Biblical Latin
Gerarda	je-RAHR-dah (Italian)	Italian, Dutch
VerÓNica	be-RO-nee-kah	Spanish