This simile suggests that the person's nervousness is so intense that it feels like large, erratic movements in their stomach, rather than gentle fluttering like butterflies. It amplifies the idea of feeling overwhelmed or anxious with a comical comparison to pigeons.
It does have to do with the feeling you get in your stomach when you get nervous, excited or you when you are in love. it really has nothing to do with butterflies.
It is a phrase used when you are nervous because the fluttery feeling in your stomach is said to feel like butterflies. so if i say a sentence that i`m nervous so instead of that we can say there r butterflies in my stomach.
"I'm so nervous about tonight i have 'Butterflies in my stomach'."
It's usually nervous tension.
Having "butterflies in your stomach" means to be overwhelmed by a nervous feeling. It comes from the uneasy feeling one gets in their stomach.It means you're nervous about something. Like you could be nervous about going on stage and doing a dance performance so you'd have butterflies in your stomach. It refers to the queasy or jittery feeling created in your stomach when you are under stress.
you can get butterflies in your stomach by being nervous or in love
It's an idiom meaning that you feel nervous, because when you're nervous it feels like something in your stomach is fluttering or twisting.
you dont really get butterflies in your stomach but when you feel weird in your stomach you might be nervous or sick. Because you are nervous or upset about something. Because your blood supply is being directed to somewhere 'more important' in your body
(Having) Butterflies in one's stomach is a figure of speech. It is used to describe a certain sensation one would feel in their stomach when being nervous or in love.
getting used to something for the first time
your very nervous and your stomach feels... not- like its supposed to.
It's a nervous response to the forthcoming act of speaking.