释义 |
feel in one's bones feel (something) in (one's) bonesTo feel something intuitively. Something bad is going to happen tonight—I can feel it in my bones.See also: bone, feelfeel in one's bonesHave an intuition or hunch about something, as in I'm sure he'll succeed-I can feel it in my bones. This expression alludes to the age-old notion that persons with a healed broken bone or with arthritis experience bone pain before rain, due to a drop in barometric pressure, and therefore can predict a weather change. [c. 1600] See also: bone, feel |