turn your stomach

turn your stomach
turn your stomach
◇ Something that turns your stomach or makes your stomach turn makes you feel ill or uncomfortable usually because it is offensive or disgusting.

The violence in his movies really turns my stomach.

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Main Entry:stomach

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turn your ˈstomach idiom
to make you feel upset, sick or disgusted

Pictures of the burnt corpses turned my stomach.

Main entry:stomachidiom

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  • turn your stomach — make you feel sick, cause you to feel ill    Watching you eat those oysters turns my stomach. Yuk! …   English idioms

  • To turn the stomach of — Turn Turn (t[^u]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Turned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Turning}.] [OE. turnen, tournen, OF. tourner, torner, turner, F. tourner, LL. tornare, fr. L. tornare to turn in a lathe, to rounds off, fr. tornus a lathe, Gr. ? a turner s… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • stomach — [[t]stʌ̱mək[/t]] ♦♦♦ stomachs, stomaching, stomached 1) N COUNT Your stomach is the organ inside your body where food is digested before it moves into the intestines. He had an upset stomach... My stomach is completely full. Syn: tummy 2) N COUNT …   English dictionary

  • turn — turn1 W1S1 [tə:n US tə:rn] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(your body)¦ 2¦(object)¦ 3¦(direction)¦ 4¦(move around central point)¦ 5¦(change)¦ 6¦(attention/thoughts)¦ 7 turn your back (on somebody/something) 8¦(age/time)¦ 9 turn something inside out …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • stomach — stom|ach1 W3S3 [ˈstʌmək] n ↑artery, ↑brain, ↑fatty, ↑tissue, ↑heart, ↑kidney, ↑intestine, ↑intestine2, ↑small, ↑large, ↑liver, ↑ …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • stomach — 1 noun (C) 1 the organ inside your body where food begins to be digested (digest1 (1)) 2 the front part of your body, below your chest: Andrew was lying on his stomach. 3 do sth on an empty stomach to do something when you have not eaten: Don t… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • turn one's stomach — {v. phr.}, {informal} To make you feel sick. * /The smell of that cigar was enough to turn your stomach./ * /The sight of blood turns my stomach./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • turn one's stomach — {v. phr.}, {informal} To make you feel sick. * /The smell of that cigar was enough to turn your stomach./ * /The sight of blood turns my stomach./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • turn\ one's\ stomach — v. phr. informal To make you feel sick. The smell of that cigar was enough to turn your stomach. The sight of blood turns my stomach …   Словарь американских идиом

  • Turn — (t[^u]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Turned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Turning}.] [OE. turnen, tournen, OF. tourner, torner, turner, F. tourner, LL. tornare, fr. L. tornare to turn in a lathe, to rounds off, fr. tornus a lathe, Gr. ? a turner s chisel, a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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