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

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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: Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context Merlin hesitated a moment or two, and I was on pins and needles during that little while. A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context 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			on its merits on knees on land on last legs on loan on location on medication on mind on moral grounds on nerves on no account on no account must on occasion on one hand on order on own account on own hook on own time on pain of on pain of death on paper on par on parole on patrol on person on pins and needles on principle on probation on purpose on radar on record on sale on say-so on schedule on second thought on shaky ground on short notice on shoulders on side on sight on speaking terms on spec on standby on steroids on tail on tap on target on tenterhooks on the air on the alert on the attack			on own time on own time on own volition on own volition on own volition on own volition on pain on pain on pain on pain on pain of on pain of death on paper on paper on paper on paper on paper on paper on par on par On Parole on patrol on penalty on penalty on penalty on penalty On penalty of on period on person On Phone Call on pins and needles on plate on plate on plate On Point on pointe On Pourrait Faire Autrement On Premise Laundry Systems, Inc. On Premise Station On Premises Accreditation Program on presentation On Press Application System on principle on principle on principle on principle on principle On Principles of Distributed Systems on probation on purpose on purpose on purpose on purpose on radar On reading On reading On Recent Discoveries by Emory Researchers on record on record on record on record

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