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in a twitter

in a giddy state; silly. Don't get yourself in a twitter. We were all in a twitter over the upcoming event.

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Thus, if you leave your empty perambulator under the trees and watch from a distance, you will see the birds boarding it and hopping about from pillow to blanket in a twitter of excitement; they are trying to find out how babyhood would suit them. The Little White Bird by Barrie, James Matthew View in context That music sets me all in a twitter, and I should have looked nice in Fan's blue tarlatan, and I know I could behave as well as any one, and have lots of partners, though I 'm not in that set. An Old-Fashioned Girl by Alcott, Louisa May View in context He was in a pitiable state of reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context			in a mad rush in a manner of speaking in a month of Sundays in a New York minute in a nut shell in a nutshell in a pickle in a pig's eye In a pig's eye! in a pinch in a pique in a quandary in a row in a rut in a second in a sense in a snit in a spot in a stage whisper in a stew in a stupor in a sweat in a tight spot in a tizzy in a twit in a twitter in a vacuum in a vicious circle in a way in a word in a world of own in abeyance in absentia in accord in accordance with in action in addition in advance in agreement in all but name in all likelihood in all modesty in all my born days in all probability in an age of years in an interesting condition in an ivory tower in and of itself in any case in any event in any shape or form			in a rut in a second in a sense in a sense in a sense in a sense in a sense In a Silent Way In A Similar Manner in a similar way In A single Round in a snit in a split second in a spot in a stage whisper in a state of action in a state of flux In a state of nature in a state of uncertainty in a stew In a stound in a stupor in a sweat in a tight spot in a tizzy in a tough spot in a twinkling in a twinkling in a twit in a twitter in a vacuum in a vicious circle in a way in a way in a way in a way in a way In A While Crocodile in a wink in a wink in a wink in a word in a word in a word in a word in a word in a world of own in abeyance in abeyance in absentia in absentia in absentia in absentia In Absentia (album) In Absentia (album) In absentia (law) In absentia (law) In abstentia In abstentia in accord

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