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the fidgets

NOUN
ants in one's pants
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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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




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