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on pins and needles

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on pins and needles
Fig. anxious; in suspense. I've been on pins and needles all day, waiting for you to call with the news. We were on pins and needles until we heard that your plane had landed safely.
See also: and, needle, pin

on pins and needles
worried or excited about something I was on pins and needles until she called to say she had arrived in Istanbul.
See also: and, needle, pin


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he said, looking so soothingly, not to say amorously on Miggs, that she sat, as she afterwards remarked, on pins and needles of the sharpest Whitechapel kind, not knowing what intentions might be suggesting that expression to his features:
Merlin hesitated a moment or two, and I was on pins and needles during that little while.
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.
 
 
 
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