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View synonyms for on pins and needles

on pins and needles

  1. In a state of anxiety or tense expectation: “Jackie was on pins and needles waiting to hear about her job application.”


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Nervously anxious, as in He was on pins and needles, waiting for the test results . The graphic expression pins and needles for the tingling sensation experienced in recovering from numbness was transferred to a feeling of marked mental uneasiness about 1800.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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