on pins and needles
Example Sentences
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"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 was just sitting on pins and needles, waiting for it to all shake out.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2022
“We were on pins and needles wondering, OK, if this virus gets into the mountain gorillas, what’s it going to do?”
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2022
“I’m living on pins and needles because I can’t get answers from anybody,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 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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