on pins and needles
Example Sentences
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“We waited on pins and needles for 12 days,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2024
"We're on pins and needles to see if Powell will say anything that suggests they will taper the size of rate increases going forward," Hogan said, referring to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
From Reuters • Oct. 31, 2022
“I’ve not heard anything, honestly. I’m on pins and needles waiting.”
From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2021
Well, it turns out the Price household was doing a fair bit of speculating as well and was on pins and needles like the rest of us until the morning of the draft.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 3, 2021
He must have been on pins and needles for a long time, worried that somebody’d find out, because he broke down right then and there and confessed the whole thing.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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