Anxious Phrases

Phrases

• Afraid of your own shadow
• Afraid so
• All of a dither
• As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
• As nervous as a whore in church
• Be afraid, be very afraid
• Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel album and song)
• Desperate Dan (a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy)
• Desperate Housewives (2004 comedy drama television series)
• Desperate measures
• Eager beaver
• Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (David Reuben book)
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (Woody Allen movie)
• I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens (Woody Allen quotation)
• Nervous Nellie
• Nervous breakdown
• Nervous titter
• Nervous wreck
• Never Nervous Pervis (Nickname of Pervis Ellison)
• On edge
• Pour oil on troubled waters
• Running scared
• Scared out of your wits
• Scared shitless
• Scared silly
• Scared stiff
• Scared to death
• Separation anxiety
• Stressed out
• Tense nervous headache
• The worried well
• Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
• Waiting by the phone
• Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? (play by Edward Albee)
• Worried sick