be/sit on thorns

be/sit on thorns如坐针毡;焦躁不安：Adam is on thorns，he has been rude and impolite to his friend，now he is censured by his conscience.亚当焦躁不安，他曾对他的朋友粗鲁无礼，现在他受到自己良知的责备。

• come under attack / fire / scrutiny etc
• fight tooth and nail
• ribonucleic acid polymerase
• bog shop
• the old one
• homing system
• have a word
• cash payments
• narcoterrorists
• irritated
• limaceous
• heterotactics
• Menuhin, Yehudi
• pronation
• trasimenoes
• raddles
• damage control party
• middle distance
• petrographer
• by common consent
• accelerated weathering
• hetaera
• mislabelled
• icositetrahedrons
• optimal control
• controlled avalanche transit-time triode
• self-actualizer
• slop sink
• residual voltage
• aerospace medicine
• cash card
• self-luminous
• rachels
• sarracenia
• surveils
• cramponning
• strobe lighting
• overflow storage
• thread
• General Court
• Cheesecaker
• supplying
• mercury nitrate
• care nothing for
• violators
• greavess
• head of cattle / sheep etc
• okenites
• flick off
• medulloepitheliomas
• Scaevola, Gaius Mucius
• growth rate
• divalency
• aftermath
• submergence
• spathic iron ore
• childish
• monge's disease
• be (a) one for (doing) sth
• on a bell
• snake fence
• execution time
• Ercps
• masturbational
• false coin
• principle of covariance
• lodges
• null set
• hypsographic tinting
• dwindle to
• main shaft
• set book / text etc
• at the top （或bottom） of the heap
• fieldings
• holy grails
• manta
• genderless
• huntresses
• Salv
• Pending
• rotating-cylinder method
• break away
• by-bidders
• vehicled
• syncretizing
• osculatory
• Chloropseudomonas
• overpress
• apterygiformess
• herbicolous
• grackles
• rationalizer
• milded
• brassage
• inundatory
• self-stimulation
• pappy guy
• friggs
• slow fire
• softboard