the fidgets
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The residents of the Miami area, once projected to bear the worst of it, seemed at some points on Sunday to be suffering more from the fidgets than anything else.
From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2017
This is the most dramatic type, giving the victim's features an expression of terror, his heart palpitations, and his disposition the fidgets.
From Time Magazine Archive
The stultifying Sunday-afternoon-in-church Messiah lives on, giving singers pleasure and listeners the fidgets.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rear-seat riding in an automobile gives me the fidgets.
From Time Magazine Archive
A name given to the fidgets of officers, who are styled jib-and-staysail Jacks.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
