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the fidgets

NOUN
ants in one's pants
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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

He has taken the seething horrors of the Russian Revolution and turned them into a pale pink romance that will give you the fidgets.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Rear-seat riding in an automobile gives me the fidgets.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Alec has had an attack of the fidgets ever since he saw that empty coracle,” said Nina.

From His Unknown Wife by Tracy, Louis




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