Phrase thesaurus
Tension Phrases
19 phrases and expressions related to "tension".
Phrases
- Bring pressure to bear
- Buckle under the strain
- Bundle of nerves
- Get on your nerves
- Let the train take the strain (British Rail advertising slogan)
- Live on your nerves
- Nerves of steel
- Peer pressure
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Pressure of work
- Separation anxiety
- Strain every nerve
- Surface tension
- Time pressure
- Under Pressure (David Bowie song)
- Under pressure
- War of nerves
- Weather bomb (a rapidly deepening low pressure area causing severe storms)
- You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife