Nervous Phrases

Phrases

• Afraid of your own shadow
• As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
• As nervous as a whore in church
• Bundle of nerves
• Butterflies in my stomach
• Cold feet
• Drop your bundle
• Highly strung
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Irritable vowel syndrome
• Look over your shoulder
• Lose your nerve
• Nervous Nellie
• Nervous breakdown
• Nervous titter
• Nervous wreck
• Never Nervous Pervis (Nickname of Pervis Ellison)
• Once bitten, twice shy
• Running scared
• Scared out of your wits
• Scared shitless
• Scared silly
• Scared stiff
• Scared to death
• Squeaky bum time
• Tense nervous headache
• The collywobbles
• Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
• Worried sick