Is there an expression or metaphor similar to "gut feeling", as a metaphor for
one's intuition or instinctive feeling about something?
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Is there an idiom equivalent to / similar to "gut feeling"?
There is the idiom 「虫{むし}の知{し}らせ」 that is often found in bilingual
dictionaries as one of the definitions for "gut feeling".

IMHO, however, that is closer to " **premonition** " in meaning and feeling
than to "gut feeling".

Regular, non-idiom words such as 「直感{ちょっかん}」 and 「第六感{だいろっかん}」 would be closer
to "gut feeling" in nuance than 「虫の知らせ」 is.
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