know something in one's bones

know something in one's bones
feel something in one's bones & know something in one's bones
Fig. to sense something; to have an intuition about something. •

The train will be late. I feel it in my bones.

I failed the test. I know it in my bones.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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