gut punch

Then another thought struck him with the force of a gut punch.

But the real gut punch comes in the film's final sequence.

Instead, he felt the full force of her anguish like a gut punch.

If you think it's a fairly new parenting gut punch, you're right.

What became the final shot of the match was a microcosmic gut punch.

Gris decided I deserved a gut punch for that one.

When the body was found, "that was the second gut punch."

But when the couple learned of the tree's untimely end, the news landed like a gut punch.

The searing editorial reads like a gut punch to Obama.

When the auto-repair shop made such a big deal about how cheap it would be, the bill is a gut punch.

It was a gut punch for Bush, who, just the day before, had called winning her support "the most meaningful endorsement" in the state.

The gut punch of emotion I experienced is impossible to convey using mere words.

In short, this would be a gut punch to the middle class, but a fleabite for the truly wealthy.

The Rugg'l folded in upon itself as if someone had doubled it over with a gut punch.

He didn't look at me; he seemed to be having trouble breathing; those gut punches had gotten to him.

The words hit Damien like a gut punch.

It was instead the surveyor's own phasers built up and suddenly releasing one gut punch.

At times, watching "Orange," I get a visceral gut punch.

The gut punch for the Wolves came late in the fourth with James on the free-throw line.

As many of my colleagues can testify, a poor score is a gut punch to one’s sense of professional pride.

I tried tearing loose, collected a breath-stealing gut punch, and was dragged down some steps.

The unfavorable comparison to a state many Texans regard with disdain was delivered like a gut punch.

"Mount Morgan" doesn't pack the gut punch of any of those, but it is a pretty good poke in the side.

Now if that should mean said reinforcement was a gut punch and a right hook, well, that was just the way of it.

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