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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Zed	ZED	English
Hugues	-	French
Michelle	mee-SHEL (French), mi-SHEL (English)	French, English, Dutch
BehİYe	-	Turkish
Paskal	-	Bulgarian, Macedonian
Lucius	LOO:-ki-uws (Ancient Roman), LOO-shəs (English), LOO-see-əs (English)	Ancient Roman, Biblical, English