"She feels the butterlies for him."

[Ju]

There is an article talking about relationship about men and
women.

1. May I know the meaning of the following sentence?
2. Any other example of using butterlies with the same meaning?

"She feels the butterlies for him."

Tks / ju

 

[emsr2d2]

There is an article talking about relationship about men and
women.

1. May I know the meaning of the following sentence?
2. Any other example of using butterlies with the same meaning?

"She feels the butterlies for him."

Tks / ju

That particular sentence makes no sense. You "get butterflies" - you don't feel them for someone else. A better sentence would have been:

She gets butterflies when she thinks about him.

 

[Ouisch]

The usual expression is "I've got butterflies in my stomach," but writers often use variations of this phrase to make a point. When a person feels "butterflies" it means they have a sort of nervous feeling of excitement. People get "butterflies" when they're nervous (like when they have to make a speech in front of a large group of people) or when they're nervous/excitied (like when they've been nominated for an Academy Award and they're waiting for the winner to be announced) or when they're happy/excited (like when they've met the person of their dreams - he/she is so beautiful to them and treats them so nicely, they can hardly believe he/she is real!). Think of a group of butterflies actually fluttering their wings inside your tummy - it sort of tickles, it's sort of upsetting, whatever the situation you just can't relax because of that fluttery feeling.

 

[theeexcellence]

That particular sentence makes no sense. You "get butterflies" - you don't feel them for someone else. A better sentence would have been:

She gets butterflies when she thinks about him.

The usual expression is "I've got butterflies in my stomach," but writers often use variations of this phrase to make a point. When a person feels "butterflies" it means they have a sort of nervous feeling of excitement. People get "butterflies" when they're nervous (like when they have to make a speech in front of a large group of people) or when they're nervous/excitied (like when they've been nominated for an Academy Award and they're waiting for the winner to be announced) or when they're happy/excited (like when they've met the person of their dreams - he/she is so beautiful to them and treats them so nicely, they can hardly believe he/she is real!). Think of a group of butterflies actually fluttering their wings inside your tummy - it sort of tickles, it's sort of upsetting, whatever the situation you just can't relax because of that fluttery feeling.

Right! I also think as a student of English idiom that the plural noun "butterflies" is usually used with get, have, give to mean getting, being, making nervous; giving a shaky feeling at knees and "fluttery" in stomach.

 

[BobK]

:up: I've never met 'feel butterflies for' to mean 'fancy'. Without the context of sexual relationships, I would have guessed that he felt nervous about something (or might have been expected to feel nervous but didn't) and she felt butterflies in her stomach on his behalf: John did not seem much concerned about the interview, but Jane felt the butterflies for him.

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[emsr2d2]

:up: I've never met 'feel butterflies for' to mean 'fancy'. Without the context of sexual relationships, I would have guessed that he felt nervous about something (or might have been expected to feel nervous but didn't) and she felt butterflies in her stomach on his behalf: John did not seem much concerned about the interview, but Jane felt the butterflies for him.

b

I wouldn't say that it actually means "to fancy" per se, but I can safely say that when you do "fancy" someone, and then you think about them, you sometimes get those butterflies! I do, at least!! :-D

I agree that it's possible to be nervous on someone else's behalf, though the OP said the article was about the relationship between men and women so that's why I went for my definition.

It's a good thing there are so many people on here who have different interpretations of sentences! It shows how confusing any language can be!