pins and needles

“We were all on pins and needles,” Missy says.

“Everybody was on pins and needles,” the counselor said at the hearing.

"I'd started to get these really intense pins and needles in my hands. It was like throwing a snowball and then running your hands under hot water afterwards. It's really painful and hot."

Since Trump’s takeover, Kennedy Center watchers have been on pins and needles about what the schedule might look like.

Writing in his column in The Sunday Times, the 64-year-old said he had symptoms of feeling "clammy", a "tightness" in his chest, and "pins and needles" in his left arm after returning from a holiday.