I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a feeling of anger
▪ He was overcome by a sudden feeling of anger against the people who had put him there.
a feeling of happiness
▪ Being by the ocean gave her a feeling of great happiness.
a feeling of joy
▪ A feeling of total joy swept over him.
a feeling of nausea
▪ Many women have feelings of nausea in early pregnancy.
a feeling/sense of gratitude
▪ She had a sudden feeling of gratitude towards him.
a feeling/sense of guilt (also guilt feelings)
▪ I had a permanent feeling of guilt that I didn't see Mum and Dad as often as I should.
a feeling/sense of nostalgia
▪ Did it give you a sense of nostalgia to see the play on Broadway again?
a feeling/sense of pity
▪ Annie experienced a sudden feeling of pity for the young man.
a sense/feeling of disappointment
▪ For days he couldn't get over his sense of deep disappointment.
a sense/feeling of doom
▪ Everyone in the business has a feeling of doom at the moment.
a sense/feeling of excitement
▪ He woke up that morning with a feeling of excitement.
a sense/feeling of importance (=a feeling that you are an important person)
▪ Sitting behind the big desk gave her a feeling of importance.
a sense/feeling of panic
▪ She looked out to sea with a rising sense of panic.
a sense/feeling of relief
▪ She was filled with an overwhelming sense of relief.
a sense/feeling of satisfaction
▪ performing such a difficult piece gave her a deep sense of satisfaction.
a sense/feeling of well-being
▪ A good meal promotes a feeling of well-being.
a strong feeling
▪ I have a lot of strong feelings on the issue.
a vague sense/feeling
▪ She had a vague feeling that she had let something important slip away.
ambivalent attitude/feelings etc
convey a feeling
▪ How could he convey his feelings for her?
express your feelings
▪ He felt unable to express his feelings in a letter.
feeling all right
▪ Are you feeling all right?
feeling distinctly
▪ Paul was left feeling distinctly foolish.
feeling empty
▪ The divorce left him feeling empty and bitter.
feeling miserable
▪ I spent the weekend feeling miserable.
feeling the squeeze (=noticing the effects of a difficult financial situation)
▪ All manufacturers are feeling the squeeze .
feeling weak
▪ The illness left her feeling weak.
feeling...better
▪ I’m feeling much better, thank you.
feeling...blue
▪ I’ve been feeling kind of blue.
feeling...good
▪ Lyn’s not feeling too good today.
feeling...peckish
▪ She was feeling a bit peckish.
feeling...randy
▪ She was feeling very randy.
feelings of anxiety
▪ Having an operation naturally entails feelings of anxiety.
feelings of hatred
▪ She talked about the feelings of hatred she has towards her son’s killer.
feelings of inadequacy
▪ Unemployment can cause feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem.
feelings of jealousy
▪ How do I deal with my feelings of jealousy regarding my girlfriend?
fellow feeling
▪ As an only child myself, I had a fellow feeling for Laura.
funny feeling
▪ I had a funny feeling something was going to happen.
had...sinking feeling
▪ I had a sinking feeling inside as I realized I was going to fail yet again.
hurt...feelings
▪ I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings.
I have a horrible feeling that
▪ I have a horrible feeling that we’re going to miss the plane.
ill feeling
▪ ‘I’m sorry. No ill feeling?’ ‘None,’ she replied.
intense feelings/emotion
▪ Her lips trembled with intense emotion.
nagging feeling/doubt/suspicion etc
▪ There was still a nagging doubt in the back of her mind.
nasty feeling/suspicion
▪ I had a nasty feeling that a tragedy was going to happen.
painful feelings/emotions
▪ Patients are encouraged to talk about their painful feelings.
return sb’s love/feelings (=love someone who loves you)
▪ Sadly, she could never return his love.
sb can’t help feeling/thinking/wondering etc sth
▪ I can’t help feeling that there has been a mistake.
▪ I couldn’t help thinking about the past.
sb’s true feelings
▪ Stephen’s controlled voice disguised his true feelings.
sense/feeling of inferiority
▪ He had a deep-rooted feeling of inferiority.
sense/feeling of unease
▪ As she neared the door, Amy felt a growing sense of unease.
▪ public unease about defence policy
share a feeling
▪ I know that many people do not share my feelings.
tingling feeling/sensation
▪ Graham felt a tingling sensation in his hand.
unconscious feeling/desire/need etc
▪ an unconscious need to be loved
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ambivalent
▪ This disparity in social attitudes is certainly reflected in the ambivalent feelings held by retired people.
▪ But the girl appears to be beset by powerful ambivalent feelings as she looks at the wolf resting beside her.
▪ These ambivalent feelings are transferred to the gods.
▪ At the very least, men generally assume their ambivalent feelings are normal.
▪ Ancient mythology points up many of the ambivalent feelings people still have about the sea or the deep.
▪ There always had been ambivalent feelings between father and oldest son.
▪ All this must have raised in the laity ambivalent feelings.
bad
▪ It was the start of bad feeling between the two.
▪ I have bad feelings for the smugglers, though.
▪ This will be appreciated by the candidate and prevent any unnecessary bad feeling that would affect the outcome.
▪ I hope nobody had bad feelings about me.
▪ I get a bad feeling when I see this thing in action.
▪ Anything more will lead to festering bad feelings and an overemphasis on money.
▪ You've nothing to lose but feeling sick, shaky and weak - the worst feeling there is.
▪ But little by little, I got over those bad feelings.
deep
▪ He wished to be left alone to concentrate on his own deep and tormented feelings.
▪ Some relationships were no doubt mere dalliances, but one woman he appears to have had deeper feelings for.
▪ This is evidence that he does not posses any deep feelings at all for any of them.
▪ Eventually this ability would enable him to understand many of his deeper feelings.
▪ There was a lot of deep feeling in his little sister, Joe thought, in spite of her gaiety and light-heartedness.
▪ She was a complicated woman, after all, with deep feelings and a sensitive spirit.
▪ His skill lies in representing his deepest feelings, not expressing them.
▪ Undoubtedly it colors my deepest feelings about him, feelings I was developing months before lie was even born.
general
▪ Another problem is the general feeling amongst Health Service employees and their property advisors that their listed buildings are liabilities rather than assets.
▪ The general feeling at table was that they were luckier than they deserved.
▪ There was a general feeling of change in the air.
▪ The exceptions to the general feeling among drivers were, however, important ones.
▪ The general feeling at the centre is one of friendliness and fun.
▪ It is probably a minority, but a general feeling that the Roman Catholic Church is a threat is widely shared.
▪ Just the general feeling of the horse that is picked up by another empathic horse or person.
▪ I think the show was good because it covered a lot of ground and put a general feeling in context.
hard
▪ We'd known each other too long for hard feelings.
▪ This is life as a mix of hard feelings, old wounds and some insights into how surprising the heart can be.
▪ And she bore Arnie no hard feelings.
▪ Actually, this time with hard feelings.
▪ But there were no hard feelings.
▪ Sentiment has been intense on both sides of the issue and hard feelings abound.
▪ I don't want any hard feelings.
▪ No hard feelings, Dickie boy.
ill
▪ You've nothing to lose but feeling sick, shaky and weak - the worst feeling there is.
▪ Jane Blasio harbors no ill feelings toward Hicks.
▪ You have clearly shown us that you have ill feelings againstthe land issue.
▪ Even though Amelia participated so little in school activities, she harbored no ill feelings toward Hyde Park.
▪ Time limits are important and may well prevent a grievance from rumbling on, thereby causing ill feeling and low morale.
▪ Nothing is worse than feeling screwed up inside or suffering from a sense of utter emptiness and loss of interest or emotion.
▪ Moreira claimed that the changes had not produced ill feeling or unrest within the armed forces.
▪ Some now pay late and with ill feeling.
negative
▪ Nothing had happened to sour their relationship or to lead her to have negative feelings about him.
▪ Share your positive attitude with others Doing something special for another person is the best way to shake off negative feelings.
▪ You may have good grounds for your negative feelings, but those feelings will not do you any good.
▪ The guards can accumulate a lot of negative feelings when they are in violent surroundings.
▪ While still suffering, the negative feeling of fearful projection may result in craving for the addictive substance or behaviour.
▪ In the two decades since, those negative feelings have grown even more intense and widespread.
▪ He then helps them to begin to envisage possible ways of reacting, including mastery of negative feelings.
▪ Was he disguising what were actually negative feelings?
personal
▪ Disclosure of personal feelings and attitudes within the family group is important.
▪ He was not the sort of person who found it easy or comfortable to open up about personal feelings.
▪ They must also lay aside their personal feelings.
▪ Jess tries to separate her personal feelings for Red from her feelings about Red as a player and teammate.
▪ In an evaluation the critic may put personal feeling aside.
▪ All of which, unfortunately, meant that she had no alternative but to put her own personal feelings to one side.
▪ Too encyclopaedic to enumerate fully here, the selection has always been based upon Stünke's personal feeling for quality.
▪ He wrote little about his personal feelings and said even less.
real
▪ Michelangelo's way of attacking a block of marble and the burning of Savonarola are described with real feeling.
▪ Guys are just scared to come out with their real feelings like they did the first part.
▪ Others suspected the truth: that Hitler's public stance did not represent his real feelings on the issue.
▪ Perhaps what had passed had made her see more clearly her real feelings for me.
▪ But Tod looked at it with real feeling, with the dull heat of-I don't know thwarted love.
▪ Just like ourselves, the real creature's feeling for itself is subjective, within its own mind structure.
▪ No doubt Thomas was deliberately making her look foolish in public in order to hide his real feelings.
▪ Many volunteer for Grendon, but many are sent without any real feeling for the regime.
strange
▪ While Steve was busying himself John asked him about the bridge and the strange feeling in the cutting.
▪ Many wanted to share their strange feelings of malaise.
▪ It was a strange feeling when four o'clock arrived and the day trippers departed.
▪ It was just a strange feeling and of course the inability to contact anyone in the Shill's room.
▪ For Lisa the experience was a revelation - and a chance to shake off her earlier strange feelings.
▪ I remember the strange feeling I had when I left the square that night, a feeling of finality.
▪ What a strange feeling to be leaving Gateshead, my home for the whole of my childhood!
▪ That strange feeling he had experienced in the hall: had it been repeated on the landing?
strong
▪ As Endill made his way to a shelf he had the strongest feeling of being followed.
▪ If you have strong feelings about a situation declare an interest and suggest that some one else temporarily takes the chair.
▪ I have strong memories of feeling different from a very early age.
▪ The girl's solitary state occasioned a good deal of sympathy, and in some cases, even stronger feelings.
▪ In fact, behind the gags there's a torrent of strong feelings.
▪ We may like or dislike different activities with particularly strong feelings involved.
▪ Unlikely as it may sound, the timetabling scheme aroused strong feelings among staff.
▪ There is strong feeling among those who do pay the community charge about those who should pay but are not paying.
true
▪ First of all he let nothing stand in the way of his true feelings.
▪ We try to act macho, showing no true feelings, thinking that they are gods.
▪ From inside they hear a massive and hysterical scream of the friends letting out their true feelings.
▪ You cut yourself off from other people and from your true feelings.
▪ She sensed that underneath his jesting ways there ran true feeling.
▪ As for Robby, he dealt with his pain very privately, rarely allowing anyone but Mama to see his true feelings.
▪ Often they have a kind of superstitious feeling that once their fears are spoken, they may come true.
▪ She always attempted to please and to avoid sharing her true feelings whenever a problem arose.
■ NOUN
gut
▪ We worked on gut feeling and it was very difficult to control and manage all the development work because of the technology involved.
▪ Your gut feelings have gotten you this far; trust them.
▪ Intuitive A gut feeling based on superficial understanding and emotional preference.
▪ I had a gut feeling Eric was the right man for us and good value at the price.
▪ He says this to Eddie, who doesn't exactly deny the lawyer's gut feeling.
▪ Male speaker There's gut feeling amongst the officers on the ground that it may be drugs related.
▪ It was just a gut feeling, a sense of unease.
▪ But they do have a gut feeling that abortion is a moral issue.
■ VERB
describe
▪ Michelangelo's way of attacking a block of marble and the burning of Savonarola are described with real feeling.
▪ When describing their feelings about writing, my clients have used such words as agonizing, excruciating, and torturous.
▪ Male speaker It's hard to describe his feelings.
▪ This was the only time Scott was able to describe his feelings to me.
▪ A carpenter's wife and a policeman's wife describe their feelings: I like shopping.
▪ In our main 1979 survey, we asked people which of four statements came closest to describing their own feelings about credit.
▪ The second are words which describe the feeling which we have about people who listen.
▪ Examples taken from both choreographers' works describe the particular feelings, moods and emotions of the characters their dancers are portraying.
experience
▪ She experienced a strong feeling of déjàvu, as if she'd seen him before, as if she knew him.
▪ It clearly bothered and frightened Nelson that he experienced these troublesome feelings concerning his parents.
▪ I had experienced a similar feeling of determination in the past.
▪ Elderly patients with multiple sensory deficits may experience intermittent feelings of dizziness, especially when walking or turning.
▪ Writers from areas within Britain are likely to experience comparable feelings.
▪ They experience their feelings very intensely.
▪ Others had, and were experiencing mixed feelings.
▪ It was a long time since Lindsey had experienced such a feeling of fulfilment.
express
▪ Some people express more of their feelings through their eyes, their hands or their whole posture than through their words.
▪ She describes her grandfather as some one who has trouble expressing his feelings.
▪ Words to express her feelings seemed to wither and die inside her.
▪ Anyway, what she does is work with emotionally disturbed people, teaching them to express their innermost feelings through poetry.
▪ I apologize for expressing my feelings so strongly to you then.
▪ She started to write poems to express her feelings.
▪ No, there aren't any easy solutions but expressing your feelings can help greatly.
▪ We may say that when a piece of music unexpectedly changes to a minor key this expresses a feeling of foreboding.
hurt
▪ It is, for example, sometimes justifiable to accept some one's authority in order not to hurt his feelings.
▪ I hoped it wouldn't hurt his feelings.
▪ She is always mean to me, and hurts my feelings.
▪ He could hardly turn her down, it would hurt her feelings.
▪ But it hurt my feelings, do you see?
▪ Her darling rather hated them, but - still more - hated to hurt feelings.
▪ It hurt my feelings very very badly.
mix
▪ Voice over Around Oxford students from other colleges had mixed feelings.
▪ She had been active in mothering already, and this was useful in coping with her mixed feelings.
▪ Rob had mixed feelings about the house.
▪ Hunting was a big part of her life, of course, and I have mixed feelings about that subject.
▪ Yeske has mixed feelings about the trust accounts known as Uniform Gifts to Minors Act accounts.
▪ But her parents have mixed feelings about the decision.
▪ Second, the victim often has mixed feelings about getting help.
share
▪ This sort of response can cause a lot of confusion for those around who perhaps do not share the same feeling.
▪ Similarly, there is no reason to assume that different people will share the same intuitive feelings regarding what is true.
▪ It's natural, and it's a part of the grieving process to feel and to share your feelings.
▪ Many wanted to share their strange feelings of malaise.
▪ Emotional issues get aired, people share their feelings to therapeutic effect.
▪ In this way they can share their feelings and start working through their sequence of reactions as synchronously as possible.
▪ Share your objectives with people. Share your feelings with people.
▪ MarcelIa shares her feelings about speaking out in this way: I hate confrontation!
understand
▪ She didn't understand her feelings.
▪ Eventually, the children themselves may begin to understand their own feelings, and why they behave as they do.
▪ I believe if you had that Mystery Miguel here instead of me, he would not have understood your feelings.
▪ But I do try to understand their feelings.
▪ Perhaps nobody saw or understood my feelings.
▪ Then, slowly, I began to understand that her feelings were not very different from my own.
▪ I understand where such feelings come from and the strength they can have.
▪ Pat and her Picture Children will understand Pat's feelings on her first day at school.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
finer feelings
▪ On the other hand, you might appeal to their finer feelings, their sense of duty and responsibility.
▪ Ven Gajdusek had no such finer feelings, of course, either conscious or subconscious.
▪ Women's bodies bring out all his finer feelings.
follow your instincts/feelings/gut reaction etc
gut reaction/feeling/instinct
▪ But my gut reaction was that, despite his reputation for being hot tempered, he was a friendly, likable child.
▪ For the ordinary viewer, logical argument gives way to his or her gut reactions and personal experience in responding to people.
▪ I have a gut feeling that the old partnerships between nature and culture have momentarily slipped out of our reach.
▪ It is more a gut feeling-a visceral distrust of foreigners.
▪ It was just a gut feeling, a sense of unease.
▪ Male speaker There's gut feeling amongst the officers on the ground that it may be drugs related.
▪ Personal reflections My gut reaction has always been against the placing of bolts, and I've never used them.
▪ We worked on gut feeling and it was very difficult to control and manage all the development work because of the technology involved.
hard feelings
▪ Lori's sarcasm can lead to arguments and hard feelings.
▪ Actually, this time with hard feelings.
▪ And she bore Arnie no hard feelings.
▪ But there'd been no hard feelings between me and Albert.
▪ But there were no hard feelings.
▪ No hard feelings, Dickie boy.
▪ Sentiment has been intense on both sides of the issue and hard feelings abound.
▪ This is life as a mix of hard feelings, old wounds and some insights into how surprising the heart can be.
▪ We'd known each other too long for hard feelings.
have a sneaking feeling/suspicion/admiration
have a vague idea/feeling/recollection etc (that)
▪ I can remember nothing of them, but I have a vague feeling of having been well cared for.
injure sb's pride/feelings etc
injured pride/feelings etc
▪ Apart from his injured feelings, little harm was done but subsequent protests became more violent and many landowners panicked.
▪ Bernice thought she detected more than a suggestion of injured pride in his rigid stance.
▪ Instead I retreated into a shell of injured pride.
▪ We sympathise with his injured pride and feel an injustice has indeed been committed.
mixed feelings/emotions
▪ I have mixed emotions about our passing game.
▪ It was pretty good, but we left the rugged mountains with mixed feelings.
▪ Rob had mixed feelings about the house.
▪ The fifth reason was that mixed feelings seemed to exist about the mass media generally and radio in particular.
▪ Voice over Around Oxford students from other colleges had mixed feelings.
▪ Yeske has mixed feelings about the trust accounts known as Uniform Gifts to Minors Act accounts.
no hard feelings
▪ No hard feelings, Stu. You had every right to be angry with me.
▪ And she bore Arnie no hard feelings.
▪ But there'd been no hard feelings between me and Albert.
▪ But there were no hard feelings.
▪ He insisted he has no hard feelings toward the club, which tried to trade him prior to the draft.
▪ It was all over months ago and, as far as he knew, with no hard feelings.
▪ Just to show there's no hard feelings, here's a picture of Nigel's stylish new look.
put your feelings/thoughts etc into words
▪ However; they had done little to develop emotional ideas and emotional thinking, to help Kyle put his feelings into words.
sb can be forgiven for thinking/believing/feeling etc sth
shade of meaning/opinion/feeling etc
▪ As a solo instrument following a melodic line, the violin can convey every imaginable shade of feeling.
▪ From a sociologist's point of view, work has shades of meaning which are individual to each of us.
▪ In this more tolerant environment several newspapers representing different shades of opinion have already sprung up, especially in the urban areas.
▪ It represented all shades of opinion, but it was dominated by Sukarno.
▪ There was in most works an allowance for shades of feeling and meaning, and for the existence of doubt.
▪ These two directions or shades of opinion are not necessarily as starkly polarised as may appear.
▪ To teach me to perceive the shades of beauty and the shades of meaning ....
sinking feeling
▪ And Dot had a sinking feeling because she realized she'd known all along even though she hadn't wanted to.
▪ And so we got on that old boat, and I had the worst sinking feeling.
▪ But the sight of pink carpe: and pink walls gave him a distinct sinking feeling.
▪ It was enough to give serious journalists a sinking feeling.
▪ People who lived through the Clinton impeachment are entitled to get a sinking feeling.
▪ Then, with a sinking feeling, I went to the caravan.
▪ Titanic job with a sinking feeling It's all in the red bag.
▪ With a sinking feeling, Katherine rearranged the items in her satchel.
spare sb's feelings
▪ He destroyed parts of Diane's diary to spare the feelings of their children.
the germ of an idea/theory/feeling etc
▪ It represents the germ of an idea which someday might explode into a national objective.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After less than a week away, he began to have feelings of homesickness.
▪ Her descriptions evoke a feeling of America as it is for new immigrants.
▪ Her gut feeling was that he was lying.
▪ I had a funny feeling that we would meet again
▪ It's always a great feeling to win a game at home.
▪ It's not very painful, just a feeling of discomfort.
▪ It was a wonderful feeling to be home again.
▪ Many men find it hard to express their feelings.
▪ My fiancé's friends are planning a bachelor party for him, and I have a feeling something awful is going to happen.
▪ My personal feeling is that most voters just don't care.
▪ One symptom of this illness is a general feeling of ill-health and tiredness.
▪ Regular exercise gives a feeling of accomplishment.
▪ She has no feeling in her legs.
▪ When he woke up, he was aware of a tight feeling in his chest.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again one has the feeling that he speaks of himself when he speaks of her.
▪ As I walked down the front steps for the last time, a feeling of elation swept over me.
▪ He had a feeling that she was deliberately avoiding him - that she feared to be alone with him.
▪ It wasn't his fault that she had discovered her feelings were more than just desire.
▪ Male speaker There's a feeling of guilt soon after.
▪ Suddenly aware that the afternoon sun had cooled, she shivered, an inexplicable feeling of depression engulfing her.
▪ This gives me a strange feeling of relief.
II.adjectivePHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
follow your instincts/feelings/gut reaction etc
gut reaction/feeling/instinct
▪ But my gut reaction was that, despite his reputation for being hot tempered, he was a friendly, likable child.
▪ For the ordinary viewer, logical argument gives way to his or her gut reactions and personal experience in responding to people.
▪ I have a gut feeling that the old partnerships between nature and culture have momentarily slipped out of our reach.
▪ It is more a gut feeling-a visceral distrust of foreigners.
▪ It was just a gut feeling, a sense of unease.
▪ Male speaker There's gut feeling amongst the officers on the ground that it may be drugs related.
▪ Personal reflections My gut reaction has always been against the placing of bolts, and I've never used them.
▪ We worked on gut feeling and it was very difficult to control and manage all the development work because of the technology involved.
injure sb's pride/feelings etc
put your feelings/thoughts etc into words
▪ However; they had done little to develop emotional ideas and emotional thinking, to help Kyle put his feelings into words.
sb can be forgiven for thinking/believing/feeling etc sth
shade of meaning/opinion/feeling etc
▪ As a solo instrument following a melodic line, the violin can convey every imaginable shade of feeling.
▪ From a sociologist's point of view, work has shades of meaning which are individual to each of us.
▪ In this more tolerant environment several newspapers representing different shades of opinion have already sprung up, especially in the urban areas.
▪ It represented all shades of opinion, but it was dominated by Sukarno.
▪ There was in most works an allowance for shades of feeling and meaning, and for the existence of doubt.
▪ These two directions or shades of opinion are not necessarily as starkly polarised as may appear.
▪ To teach me to perceive the shades of beauty and the shades of meaning ....
sinking feeling
▪ And Dot had a sinking feeling because she realized she'd known all along even though she hadn't wanted to.
▪ And so we got on that old boat, and I had the worst sinking feeling.
▪ But the sight of pink carpe: and pink walls gave him a distinct sinking feeling.
▪ It was enough to give serious journalists a sinking feeling.
▪ People who lived through the Clinton impeachment are entitled to get a sinking feeling.
▪ Then, with a sinking feeling, I went to the caravan.
▪ Titanic job with a sinking feeling It's all in the red bag.
▪ With a sinking feeling, Katherine rearranged the items in her satchel.
spare sb's feelings
▪ He destroyed parts of Diane's diary to spare the feelings of their children.
the germ of an idea/theory/feeling etc
▪ It represents the germ of an idea which someday might explode into a national objective.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A feeling look came across her face.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For me it was fundamentally feeling part of a community, a word we didn't use in those days.
▪ In discussing John, advisers may acknowledge that they would feel uncomfortable with the client, probably feeling censure.