Meaning: needles 
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n.
as the leaf of a conifer
a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument
a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)
a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record
v.
goad or provoke,as by constant criticism
prick with a needle
be on pins and needles Idiom, Proverb
needless to say
on pins and needles
pins and needles
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adj. phr., informal Worried; nervous. Jane's mother was on pins and needles because Jane was very late getting home from school. Many famous actors are on pins and needles before the curtain opens for a play.be on pins and needles
To be afraid and tense. The byword acceptable acquired from the amazing awareness (called "pins and needles") that occurs back claret breeze allotment to a aloof limb. A: "Why is Carrie pacing?" B: "She's cat-and-mouse for the doctor to alarm with her analysis results, so she's been on pins and all-overs all day."Learn more: and, needle, on, pinon pins and needles, to be
To be acutely afraid or uneasy; in suspense. The angel is as bright as that of a cat on a hot tin roof. Robert Louis Stevenson appears to accept been the aboriginal to use it metaphorically, in St. Ives (1897): “He was audibly on pins and needles.” It was a cliché by the mid-twentieth century. Learn added on tenterhooks.Learn more: and, on, pin
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