Mrs. Watson sat on pins and needles.
Be on pins and needles;tingling
On hearing the news, she was on pins and needles.
They waited on pins and needles for the football scores.
He was on pins and needles, waiting for the test results.
He tried to look calm and confident but everybody in the courtroom knew he was on pins and needles.
The long waiting made the students live like a year, and their daughters like pins and needles.
It had to be resolved. She would itch to try it. She was on pins and needles.
He was on pins and needles when he received a telegram from Xinjiang about his uncle's critical illness.
When people read my works they feel they are on pins and needles and their convinced rule and law begin to be unstable.
I went to sleep with my arm draped over the edge of a chair and when I woke up I had pins and needles in my hand.
Because he didn't know what was going on at home, he was on pins and needles after receiving the phone call.
I think I'm on pins and needles now. Time goes so slowly that I even think I've spent a long time.
A wide range of behaviors fit this description, including cutting, burning and carving of the skin to breaking bones, preventing wound healing and sticking yourself with pins and needles.
Love is a person's business. When you fall in love with others, you feel as if you are in a deep sea. When the other person is on pins and needles, others fall in love with you, you just feel helpless and funny.
I'm on pins and needles.
I was on pins and needles.
"I can't stay on pins and needles any longer."
Class26： Lace and embroidery, ribbons and braid; buttons, hooks and eyes, pins and needles; artificial flowers.
My wife gave birth last night and I was on pins and needles during the whole process.
I saw that he was calm on the surface, but in fact he was on pins and needles.
After the news of Chen Sheng's uprising reached Wuxian County, the county of Huiji kept Yintong on pins and needles, and was in constant panic.
It's unusual to get pins and needles in your head - but this unfortunate chap seems to have a very severe case of 's more, it's entirely self-inflicted.
When Dad first quit drinking, the whole family was on pins and needles every time he got into a situation that, in the past, would have started him drinking again.
He is on pins and needles.
The father-to-be is on pins and needles.
That night, when I returned to my home, I was on pins and needles and tortured all night.
I had been sitting in a crowded train for more than four I tried to get out, I had pins and needles in my leg.
pins and needles
If I can't finish my work, I'll be on pins and needles!
You show kids the tapes of winning the medal in Athens and you get pins and needles and goose bumps on the back of your neck when you watch it.
Li Shimin, who was sitting in a chair, felt that he was on pins and needles at the moment.
to sit on pins and needles