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
“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
“We’re kind of on pins and needles every time that his test results come back,” McVay said.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 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
“We’re on pins and needles, mate,” said Mother.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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