the fidgets
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The residents of the Miami area, once projected to bear the worst of it, seemed at some points on Sunday to be suffering more from the fidgets than anything else.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2017
The stultifying Sunday-afternoon-in-church Messiah lives on, giving singers pleasure and listeners the fidgets.
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Rear-seat riding in an automobile gives me the fidgets.
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This is the most dramatic type, giving the victim's features an expression of terror, his heart palpitations, and his disposition the fidgets.
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It's all very smart," he said, "but don't you never feel the fidgets in your legs?
From Harding's luck by H. R. (Harold Robert) Millar