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| ants in one's pants; in a stew; on tenterhooks; on the edge of one's seat (Игорь Primo) | |||
| is on edge; peeved | |||
| antsy (Баян) | |||
| like a cat on hot bricks | |||
| be in the hot seat (Taras) | |||
| be on pins and needles; be on pins and needles | |||
| ants in one's pants (During the match Jane's got ants in her pants shouting and twisting all over. == Во время матча Джейн словно на иголках сидела. Она то и дело крутилась и вопила как сумасшедшая.); on pins and needles; on pins and needles ("Although I've been singing for a pretty long time, I always on pins and needles before the curtain opens up". == "Хоть я и пою перед публикой уже довольно долго, но перед поднятием занавеса я всегда как на иголках", - говорит вокалист группы.) | |||
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| on tenterhooks (to be); on thorns (to be) (to sit) | |||
| как на иголках: 63 phrases in 11 subjects |
| American usage, not spelling | 1 |
| Figure of speech | 1 |
| General | 37 |
| Idiomatic | 4 |
| Informal | 2 |
| Literature | 1 |
| Makarov | 9 |
| Mass media | 1 |
| Obsolete / dated | 3 |
| Proverb | 2 |
| Slang | 2 |