pit of stomach

pit of one's stomach

Fig. the middle of one's stomach; the location of a "visceral response." I got a strange feeling in the pit of my stomach when they told me the bad news.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jehoshaphat	ji-HAHSH-ə-fat (English), jee-HAHSH-ə-fat (English)	Biblical
Guadalupe	gwah-dhah-LOO-pe	Spanish
Marinka	-	Croatian, Slovene
ÓSkar	-	Icelandic
Gudrun	GOOD-roon (German)	Norse Mythology, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German
Anson	AN-sən	English