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.