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The phrase "gut punch" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase is usually used to figuratively describe a feeling of shock or sudden sorrow. For example, "The news of her death was a gut punch" or "Finding out he had been lying to me was a real gut punch".
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Again, it felt like a gut punch.
The gut punch is that this, of course, is impossible.
Such psychological candour gives Le Week-End gut punch.
The third, in the 18th over, was the gut punch.
It'd be a gut punch if Jones lost.
Still, "it was a gut punch," her cousin said.
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One of the real gut-punch moments comes late on.
And the result is startling, disturbing, gut-punch cinema.
Also building sensibly after the gut-punch of relegation are Aston Villa.
Great technical accomplishments, with none of the gut-punch of art.
It's a heartbreaking gut-punch; a melancholic shadow attaching itself to the film.
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