be on pins and needles

be on pins and needles AmEto be very nervous and unable to relax, especially because you are waiting for something important如坐针毡，坐立不安〔尤因等待重要事情〕;SYNbe on tenterhooksbe on ˌpins and ˈneedles(NAmE)=be on tenterhooks

• boot-up
• National Labor Relations Board
• pennyworth
• continuativeness
• accoutred
• total variation
• of the order of
• half-moons
• booze up
• menopausal
• desulphurize, desulphurized
• tentoria
• bar joist
• sex life
• televisings
• code extension
• hunt the slipper
• occasional ethics
• runologist
• katharometers
• drill-stem test
• anonymous gift
• megatheriums
• wolffishes
• stare sb out of countenance
• plerotic water
• cotemporaries
• allegorizer
• sicker
• Etta
• shellacker
• nocturn
• isfahans
• et cetera
• Joule-Thomson experiment
• planetariums
• meteoroid
• rosefishes
• -aer
• feather boa
• coproducers
• anion
• air edition
• antigenicities
• nonuniformed
• sphincteroplasty
• siloxane
• absolute impediments
• linearizations
• USGA
• under sb’s (very) nose
• trachealgia
• slap sth on sth
• letch
• bluethroats
• psychologizes
• rug rat
• developpes
• baal merodaches
• laurel oaks
• flopsweat
• re-proving
• enwheel
• misapprehensiveness
• epididymis
• samarangs
• schranks
• Gymnarthridae
• paid-up member
• redder
• like (或 as, by) forty
• acid washing
• Fokine, Michel Mikhaylovich
• stage doors
• creative team
• diadochy
• cordon sth ↔ off
• borsch belt
• reargues
• electronic balancer
• charge-offs
• fantasies
• personalistic
• accommodation stage
• tapered joint
• psychophysiological
• categorically related
• Dale, Sir Henry Hallett
• Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman
• not give a damn （或 hoot等）
• have little time for
• the devil among the tailors
• sorry I spoke
• yielders
• gaze on/upon
• cooeys
• shoeblack
• sensitisings
• exhaustively
• snob zoning