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be on pins and needles

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be on pins and needles (American & Australian)

to be nervously waiting to see what is going to happen. We're on pins and needles waiting to hear whether she got the job.

See also: needle, pin

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She went with her mother, who, of course, when she heard of a stranger being in the neighbourhood, would be on pins and needles till she had seen her and got all she could out of her. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context More results

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