on pins and needles

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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.

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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 More results

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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

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