gut feeling

"You know when you have this horrible gut feeling and a feeling of fear for children as well," she explains.

Whether it was professional judgement or gut feeling, the men agreed there was something they could not put their finger on that left them concerned.

But he cautioned at the time that people "shouldn't put any value" in gut feeling, and that they should resign themselves "to the fact that a 50-50 forecast really does mean 50-50."

The Gunners really need a win here to cling on to the tail of leaders Manchester City, but my gut feeling is that Newcastle will get something out of this game, and it has got a draw written all over it.

"When I first read these scripts, I had a bit of a tingle," he said during a recent "Salon Talks" conversation, comparing the experience to the gut feeling that led to his memorable roles as a terrorized homeowner in the cult classic "The Strangers" and as the Y2K generation's dream boyfriend on "Felicity."