"I'm so nervous about tonight i have 'Butterflies in my stomach'."
metephor
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.
He told me I had won, but I thought he was pulling my leg.
Let's meet at a restaurant and get a bite to eat.
My sister always "cracks me up" with her jokes.
I cannot find a firm origin for this saying. Evidently people once believed that the nervous sensation might be caused by something you had eaten.
John loved to dance and would do so at the drop of a hat.
The victim was badly injured, so a sentence of community service is no more than a slap on the wrist.
You're going to be broke soon if you don't get job and stop spending money.
when i went back to my apartmemt their was a big cry wolf in room 208.
As my mom would say......... Early Bird gets the worm!
He didn't want to go to the cinema, but she twisted his arm.ie. she persuaded him to do otherwise, she convinced him.