pins and needles
noun
• a tingling sensation in a limb recovering from numbness.
on pins and needles
• in an agitated state of suspense.
Similar:
in suspense,
waiting with bated breath,
anxious,
nervous,
apprehensive,
worried,
worried sick,
on edge,
edgy,
tense,
strained,
stressed,
agitated,
in a state of nerves,
in a state of agitation,
fretful,
restless,
worked up,
keyed up,
overwrought,
wrought up,
strung out,
jumpy,
with one's stomach in knots,
like a cat on a hot tin roof,
fidgety,
nervy,
jittery,
twitchy,
in a state,
uptight,
wired,
in a stew,
in a dither,
all of a dither,
in a sweat,
in a flap,
in a tizz/tizzy,
all of a lather,
het up,
in a twitter,
waiting for the axe to fall,
strung up,
windy,
having kittens,
all of a doodah,
spooky,
squirrelly,
in a twit,
toey,
overstrung,
shitting bricks,
bricking oneself,
