string up
• hang something up on strings.
• "electric globes had been strung up at intervals"
• be tense or nervous.
• "he was strung up about something and behaving oddly"
Similar:
tense,
nervous,
on edge,
edgy,
overwrought,
jumpy,
keyed up,
worked up,
agitated,
restive,
anxious,
worried,
apprehensive,
ill at ease,
uneasy,
unquiet,
nervy,
uptight,
wound up,
strung out,
twitchy,
jittery,
wired,
a bundle of nerves,
like a cat on a hot tin roof,
stressy,
