on pins and needles
Example Sentences
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“Not feeling like you’re walking on pins and needles is definitely a much better place to be,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2023
"We're on pins and needles to see if Powell will say anything that suggests they will taper the size of rate increases going forward," Hogan said, referring to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
From Reuters • Oct. 31, 2022
“We were on pins and needles wondering, OK, if this virus gets into the mountain gorillas, what’s it going to do?”
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2022
We are sitting on pins and needles in this country about every moment, every action, every assessment, and it is draining.
From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2020
He must have been on pins and needles for a long time, worried that somebody’d find out, because he broke down right then and there and confessed the whole thing.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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