wound up

The old Ironsides had even played in Europe after winning the Welsh Cup, famously reaching the Cup Winners' Cup quarter-final in 1981 - only seven years before relegation from the Football League and eight years before being wound-up with £330,000 of debts.

Dark Brandon, by contrast, radiates wound-up energy, as if he will not rest until he gets his way.

A clearly wound-up Stuart Broad told Carey, "That's all you will be remembered for".

Morgen, who grew up in the San Fernando Valley, met Bowie in 2007 when he pitched the musician, then in semiretirement, on a different cinematic project: a three-part narrative/nonfiction hybrid in which Bowie would play varying versions of himself, including one who “travels around the Himalayas on an elephant with a wound-up film projector showing images to the last people on Earth who’d never heard of Bowie.”

He chuckles: "I told my daughter the other day after our Zoom conference with her teacher, 'Kid, be glad you don't have to deal with a wound-up Vietnamese mother on a mission.'"