Stress Phrases

Phrases

• A lot on your plate (having many responsibilities)
• Bring pressure to bear
• Buckle under the strain
• Bundle of nerves
• Crisis management
• Crisis, what crisis? (Jim Callaghan quotation)
• Don't Worry Baby (Beach Boys song)
• Don't worry, be happy
• Flag it up
• Force the issue
• Get on your nerves
• Hammer it home
• Identity crisis
• Let the train take the strain (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Live on your nerves
• Metal fatigue
• More than flesh and blood can stand
• Nerves of steel
• Not to worry
• Nothing to worry your pretty little head about
• Panic room
• Peer pressure
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Pressure of work
• Run yourself ragged
• Separation anxiety
• Stew in your own juice
• Stop and smell the roses
• Strain every nerve
• Stressed out
• Style over substance (an emphasis on image rather than issues)
• Surface tension
• Time pressure
• Under Pressure (David Bowie song)
• Under pressure
• Under the gun
• Up against the wall
• War of nerves
• We won't make a drama out of a crisis (Commercial Union advertising slogan)
• Weather bomb (a rapidly deepening low pressure area causing severe storms)
• Work life balance
• Working all the hours God sends
• Worry wart