the fidgets
Example Sentences
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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
Rear-seat riding in an automobile gives me 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
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
I never was unobserving or absent; I never had the fidgets; I never once mentioned the name of my adored Helen; and, heigho!
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
