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View synonyms for pins and needles
pins and needles
noun
- a tingly, prickly sensation in a limb that is recovering from numbness.
pins and needles
noun
- a tingling sensation in the fingers, toes, legs, etc, caused by the return of normal blood circulation after its temporary impairment
- on pins and needlesin a state of anxious suspense or nervous anticipation
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pins and needles1
First recorded in 1800–10
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Idioms and Phrases
Idioms
- on pins and needles, in a state of nervous anticipation:
The father-to-be was on pins and needles.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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