On pins and needles synonyms | phrases

Phrases with similar meaning for On pins and needles

• on tenterhooks

  not feeling at ease
• on edge

  anxious, nervous
• in a stew

  worried, with butterflies in one's stomach
• worried sick

  anxious, worried
• ill at ease

  anxious
• in suspense
• high-strung

  nervous, restlessly moving
• self-conscious

  not feeling at ease
• out of place

  not feeling at ease
• butterflies in stomach

  worried
• tied up in knots

  worried
• hot-tempered

  impatient, unable
• quick-tempered

  impatient, unable
• dying to

  impatient, unable
• having short fuse

  impatient, unable
• hot under collar

  impatient, unable
• beside oneself

  anxious
• hung up

  anxious
• worried stiff
• nervous wreck

  restlessly moving
• up the wall

  restlessly moving
• waiting with bated breath

  in suspense
• in a tizzy

  with butterflies in one's stomach
• in a state

  with butterflies in one's stomach
• in a sweat

  with butterflies in one's stomach
• in a dither

  with butterflies in one's stomach
• having kittens

  strung up
• biting nails
• restlessly moving
• in a state of nerves
• in a state of agitation
• worked up
• wrought up
• with one's stomach in knots
• with butterflies in one's stomach
• all of a dither
• in a flap
• in a tizz
• all of a lather
• het up
• in a twitter
• waiting for the axe to fall
• all of a doodah

  strung up
• in a twit

  spooky
• shitting bricks

  vulgar slang
• bricking oneself

  vulgar slang, shitting bricks
• out-of-place
• hot and bothered
• like a fish out of water
• highly-strung