Anxiety Phrases

Phrases

• Asking for trouble
• Borrow trouble
• Bundle of nerves
• Carry on like a pork chop
• Cause for concern
• Change into your brown trousers
• Don't Worry Baby (Beach Boys song)
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Don't worry, be happy
• Double trouble
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson book)
• Fear Is The Key (Barry Newman movie)
• Fear is the mind-killer
• Fear the worst

• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
• Get on your nerves
• Going concern
• Here comes trouble
• I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor Swift song)
• In trouble
• Live on your nerves
• Looking for trouble
• Make trouble
• Nerves of steel
• Nervous breakdown
• Nervous wreck
• No fear
• Nose for trouble
• Not to worry

• Nothing to worry your pretty little head about
• Paralysed with fear
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Primal Fear (film starring Richard Gere)
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Private hell
• Put the fear of God into someone
• Put the fear of death into someone
• Rush of blood
• Separation anxiety
• Stir up trouble
• Surface tension
• Tense nervous headache
• The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n (from a poem by Milton)

• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (Political slogan)
• This is a local shop, we'll have no trouble here (A catchphrase from The League of Gentlemen)
• Trouble and strife (Cockney rhyming slang for wife)
• Trouble in Paradise
• Trouble with a capital T
• Tummy trouble
• Up to your neck in trouble
• Voice your concern
• War of nerves
• When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me (Beatles song lyric)
• Without fear or favour
• Worry wart