nervous wreck

"Let's face it, I started this game a bit of a nervous wreck. I've thrown some really good friends under the bus, I've murdered national treasures in plain sight. I'm clearly a better liar and traitor than I thought I was."

“It’s like I’m having a mental breakdown. I’m a nervous wreck. I’m sweating. When Dornoch was going into the gate at the Kentucky Derby, I literally couldn’t breathe. I was hyperventilating and I almost passed out. I’ve never experienced anything like that in my life.”

Kirby, whom I first noticed in the great Canadian series “Slings & Arrows,” a Shakespeare-themed backstage comedy not unlike “Étoile,” and who played a convincing Lenny Bruce in “Maisel,” rockets between nervous energy and being a nervous wreck as Jack; his flying up and down stairs is a motif here.

Alexander Bell also told the court that on 26 March he was at a friend's house when his brother turned up looking like a "nervous wreck", saying "they are going to end up murdering her" or "they are going to end up doing away with her".

Cronin described himself as a “nervous wreck” coming into the game given that the Thunderbirds had taken unbeaten Loyola Chicago down to the final minute before falling for their first loss.