I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hate sb’s guts informal (= hate someone very much )
misery guts (= a name for someone like this )
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What’s the matter with you, misery guts ?
sb's gut instinct informal (= someone's first instinct )
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Her gut instinct about Jimmy had been right.
sb’s gut reaction informal (= what they feel or decide immediately, before thinking )
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You must trust your gut reactions.
sweat blood/sweat your guts out (= work very hard )
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I sweated blood to get that report finished.
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We’ve been sweating our guts out here!
take courage/guts
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It takes courage to admit you are wrong.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
feeling
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We worked on gut feeling and it was very difficult to control and manage all the development work because of the technology involved.
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Your gut feelings have gotten you this far; trust them.
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Intuitive A gut feeling based on superficial understanding and emotional preference.
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I had a gut feeling Eric was the right man for us and good value at the price.
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He says this to Eddie, who doesn't exactly deny the lawyer's gut feeling .
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Male speaker There's gut feeling amongst the officers on the ground that it may be drugs related.
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It was just a gut feeling , a sense of unease.
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But they do have a gut feeling that abortion is a moral issue.
instinct
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The old man's gut instincts had always been good.
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The staff member who received the flowers on this occasion did what she did through pure interest and gut instinct .
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The Prime Minister's gut instinct is to secure a private sector future for the Tube.
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He couldn't ignore his gut instinct , which had never failed him yet.
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Ultimately, they blame Rupert Murdoch for losing confidence in his gut instincts .
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It's a tremendous responsibility, and challenges all your skills and training, but it also depends a lot on gut instinct .
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Something - that same gut instinct that made her get his address alerted her.
level
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For one thing, this new record hits you straight at gut level the first time.
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He was not being romantic, operating on a gut level .
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Intellectual conviction is nothing like feeling at gut level .
reaction
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Personal reflections My gut reaction has always been against the placing of bolts, and I've never used them.
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But my gut reaction was that, despite his reputation for being hot tempered, he was a friendly, likable child.
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Dalziel's bullet-riddled gut reaction was right from the start.
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For the ordinary viewer, logical argument gives way to his or her gut reactions and personal experience in responding to people.
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It is a gut reaction to the sense of having been taken over by affluent and alien strangers.
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Perhaps he didn't have gut reactions any more.
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I've got this gut reaction .
■ VERB
hate
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But there are always one or two who would have preferred a colleague to a stranger even if they hated his guts .
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Harry H.. Vaughan, who hated the guts of both Forrestal and Lovett.
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But that was before he'd begun to hate my guts .
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Ever since, Graber had hated his guts .
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I won't mention Morton because he hates his guts , of course.
show
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Evidence is accumulating to show that gut epithelial cells interact closely with adjacent mononuclear cells.
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His memory might have gone, but he showed plenty of guts .
spill
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Amid all the purple, there was cardinal and gold, spilling from guts and pouring from hearts.
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Albert let Rob run on till he spilled his guts , but Loulse probed.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bust a gut
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The movie was hilarious. I just about busted a gut.
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We busted a gut trying to get home on time.
follow your instincts/feelings/gut reaction etc
greedy guts
spill your guts
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Rob let Al talk until he finally spilled his guts about his affair with Louise.
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Albert let Rob run on till he spilled his guts, but Loulse probed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He hit me right in the gut .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But for those with guts, some of the highest yields around can be found here -- and even an occasional windfall.
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Hector said forcefully and directly to my father, making my guts jump.
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Like jellyfish, they have only one opening to their gut through which they both take in food and eject waste.
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The sterilisation of the gut by the washout can even prevent the cleavage.
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We can follow gastrulation in the early development of the sea-urchin and actually see the gut forming.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fire
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The hotel which had been gutted by fire last year, re-opened for business during August.
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The village church is gone, the orphanage is still standing, though one wing of it has been gutted by fire .
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Now they've been given a derelict school building, gutted by fire , for their new community association.
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His flat was gutted by the fire which burst through windows and roof.
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The building was gutted by the fires of the 1916 Rising.
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The mill became known as Millend Maltings and for its malted biscuits; it was gutted by fire .
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Some one a few doors away had their house gutted by fire last week.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
greedy guts
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Gut and clean all the fish before cooking.
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Democrats have gutted the anti-crime bill.
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The Sunday night fire gutted St. Mary's church.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Now they've been given a derelict school building, gutted by fire, for their new community association.
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Passage came after two amendments to gut the bill were defeated.
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The hotel which had been gutted by fire last year, re-opened for business during August.
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When I came back from fishing yesterday you were beside me in the lean-to gutting the catch with me.
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Winding down I gave a firm strike only to find that I had missed the take, I was gutted.