Schmetterlinge im Bauch haben
to have butterflies in one's stomach (in love)
Origin
A loan translation of English "butterflies in the stomach"; the phrase goes back to the US writer Florence Converse (1908) and entered German in the 1970s.
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Examples
Immer wenn sie ihn sieht, hat sie Schmetterlinge im .
Whenever she sees him, she gets butterflies in her stomach.