Talk:have a funny feeling

have a funny feeling
Looks sum of parts to me. And the definition given seems to be only one possible interpretation of the meaning behind a "funny" feeling. ---&gt; Tooironic 02:35, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree. But "funny feeling" should probably appear in usexes at [[funny]] (strange) and [[feeling]] (intuition). DCDuring TALK 03:06, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
 * In my experience means “a suspicion” (perhaps “a sneaking suspicion”), and  means “to suspect”. I think we should have an entry for the former, at least, if not the latter. —Ruakh TALK 19:24, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
 * FWIW, "funny feeling" appears in no OneLook reference. DCDuring TALK 20:19, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
 * My experience matches Ruakh's. The CFI don't mention Onelook. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 18:56, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
 * CFI doesn't mention OED either. But I generally have respect for the fact that professional lexicographers have made judgments about includability words. OneLook includes idiom dictionaries and glossaries which are highly inclusive. Introspection by amateurs is a poor substitute for such judgments, let alone for some corpus-based evidence. We still don't have as many English lemmas as AHD, RHU, and MWOnline. We might have as many as WNW. If you subtract our flaky and erroneous entries, we are farther behind, despite our alleged advantages. [BTW, Encarta is no more.] DCDuring TALK 19:21, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Definitely cites rule. Impressions don't, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 20:48, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Really you didn't. The value of "authorities", aka lemmings, is that, at least for common collocations, their lack of support for what someone has proposed as a term might give us pause. This is also true when the term falls within the purview of a reference that purports to cover idioms or use of a term in a particular field. Lately our biggest RfD problem is probably collocations common in some context (readily attestable in the sense given) that involve an unusual word or unusual sense of a relatively common word, that may have been heard by and been memorable to more than one contributor, especially not en-N. I still have trouble noticing some "mild" forms of idiomaticity, so a non-native perspective is useful. But forming a judgment is not always easy. So the opinions of authorities/lemmings has some evidentiary value. DCDuring TALK 22:09, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm. The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English glosses "funny feeling" as "strange feeling" — which may be evidence of SOPness, insofar as one sense of funny is "strange". (Indeed, DCDuring recently added a "have a funny feeling" usex to [[funny]] under just that sense.) To this I'll add that "odd feeling" and "weird feeling" also seem to have roughly the same sense. There's something funny/strange/odd/weird going on here, but maybe it's some figure of speech rather than actual idiomaticity. —Ruakh TALK 20:36, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Looks like it has more to do with feeling:. Delete. DAVilla 06:17, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
 * keep a foreigner would find this useful to understand this in a way an SOP search would not be helpful. in this edit
 * You think feeling means a suspicion? Perhaps so. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 00:04, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete, and create funny feeling if needed, since it can also occur in "I've got a funny feeling". Equinox ◑ 16:56, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

deleted -- Liliana • 14:14, 20 February 2012 (UTC)