The words that precede and follow a quotation are just as important as the quotation itself. You can think of each quote as the filling in a sandwich: it may be tasty on its own, but itâs messy to eat without some bread on either side of it.
Innermost emotional or visceral response: She felt in her gut that he was guilty. b. guts The inner or essential parts: The best part of a good car ... is its guts (Leigh Allison Wilson). 3. guts Slang Courage; fortitude: It takes guts to be a rock climber. 4. Slang A gut course.
Since gut is not usually regarded as a technical term the definition may be less than well defined. Also, it is used with several different meanings in different contexts. When used as a non-embryological anatomical term in a medical context I have always understood the gut as a reference to the intestines, not including the stomach. That more-or-less matches the definition at http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/gut