kick in the guts

She looked like someone who'd been kicked in the guts.

"But now we are getting kicked in the guts.

1080 report "a kick in the guts" says United Future Party leader.

Her actions have bigger ramifications; whenever Sophie lands herself in trouble it deals her "a kick in the guts".

This was a spit in the eye for his late self-righteous father and, more to the point, a kick in the guts for his brother Georgi.

The only thing that has kept me buoyed is the fact that in this industry all players and coaches get kicked in the guts at some stage."

After the Nobel ceremony, Dr. Caldicott writes, "I felt as if I had been kicked in the guts."

"Canberra fans get a free kick in the guts after AFL drops the ball", The Canberra Times, 14 July 2006.

Crowded swims where you take off from the beach are the worst: you're swimming over people, they're swimming over you, you get kicked in the guts and punched in the head.

NOEL CLEAL described his dismissal as Hull coach as a 'kick in the guts' and forecast a gloomy future for the club, writes John Whalley.

United Future supports fur recovery and trapping methods over aerial 1080, and labelled the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment's report on 1080 a "kick in the guts for many of our provincial communities".

"Every time I get up in the morning and I turn on the cable news and I see that one or two more of our soldiers have been killed it's like a kick in the guts to me, personally.