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
He has taken the seething horrors of the Russian Revolution and turned them into a pale pink romance that will give you the fidgets.
From Time Magazine Archive
The stultifying Sunday-afternoon-in-church Messiah lives on, giving singers pleasure and listeners the fidgets.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is the most dramatic type, giving the victim's features an expression of terror, his heart palpitations, and his disposition the fidgets.
From Time Magazine Archive
Geography and arithmetic shall be my share, and you may have the writing and spelling; it gives me the fidgets to set copies and hear children make a mess of words.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 by Mary Mapes Dodge
