【活动】 a proverb a day: on pins and needles

to be very anxious or nervous because you are waiting to see if something happens the way you want it to

After taking the AP exam, Alice was sitting on pins and needles waiting for her score. 

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• Not exactly a proverb but vivid nonetheless. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/24/2023 postreply 08:47:19

• it‘s an idiom -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/24/2023 postreply 10:50:24

• 如坐针毡。 -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/24/2023 postreply 10:39:09

• sit on pins and needles 就差不多是proverb了 -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/24/2023 postreply 11:17:28