英语词汇“on pins and needles”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

on pins and needles

In an agitated state of suspense.You look like you're sitting on pins and needles....

Now they sit on pins and needles, figuratively speaking, because, now that you're back, they don't know if you are to be depended upon.
It will keep people on pins and needles for the next 48 months but we'll keep trucking along.

Synonyms

in suspense, waiting with bated breath;

anxious, nervous, apprehensive, worried, worried sick, on edge, edgy, tense, strained, stressed, agitated, in a state of nerves, in a state of agitation, fretful, restless, worked up, keyed up, overwrought, wrought up, strung out, jumpy, with one's stomach in knots, with one's heart in one's mouth, like a cat on a hot tin roof, fidgety;

British nervy

informal with butterflies in one's stomach, jittery, twitchy, in a state, uptight, wired, in a stew, in a dither, all of a dither, in a sweat, in a flap, in a tizz/tizzy, all of a lather, het up, in a twitter, waiting for the axe to fall

British informal strung up, windy, having kittens, all of a doodah

North American informal spooky, squirrelly, in a twit

Australian/New Zealand informal toey

British vulgar slang shitting bricks, bricking oneself

dated overstrung

See parent entry: pins and needles

单词	on pins and needles
释义	on pins and needles In an agitated state of suspense.You look like you're sitting on pins and needles.... Now they sit on pins and needles, figuratively speaking, because, now that you're back, they don't know if you are to be depended upon. It will keep people on pins and needles for the next 48 months but we'll keep trucking along. Synonyms in suspense, waiting with bated breath; anxious, nervous, apprehensive, worried, worried sick, on edge, edgy, tense, strained, stressed, agitated, in a state of nerves, in a state of agitation, fretful, restless, worked up, keyed up, overwrought, wrought up, strung out, jumpy, with one's stomach in knots, with one's heart in one's mouth, like a cat on a hot tin roof, fidgety; British nervy informal with butterflies in one's stomach, jittery, twitchy, in a state, uptight, wired, in a stew, in a dither, all of a dither, in a sweat, in a flap, in a tizz/tizzy, all of a lather, het up, in a twitter, waiting for the axe to fall British informal strung up, windy, having kittens, all of a doodah North American informal spooky, squirrelly, in a twit Australian/New Zealand informal toey British vulgar slang shitting bricks, bricking oneself dated overstrung See parent entry: pins and needles
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