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Definition of pins and needles in English: pins and needlesplural noun treated as singular A tingling sensation in a limb recovering from numbness. （肢体发麻恢复时的）针刺感 Example sentencesExamples - ‘They are experiencing nagging pain spreading across their backs and legs, numb fingers and recurring pins and needles,’ he says.
- Savannah started to feel pins and needles in her back and her right arm turned blue a week after the accident.
- She complained of pain in the right shoulder and upper right arm, numbness, swelling and pins and needles in the upper right arm, pounding headache, dizziness, insomnia, weight gain.
- Station officer Graham Davies said: ‘He was complaining about pins and needles in his legs.’
- I have received quite a few letters from people suffering from restless legs, pins and needles and other tingling sensations which have not been found to be caused by anything in particular.
- These symptoms consist mainly of tingling, numbness, a sensation of pins and needles in the extremities, and muscle aches.
- Nigel and Sharron said they became concerned for Emma in February last year when she began suffering from constant pins and needles down one side of her body.
- There was a tingling in my limbs like pins and needles that grew more and more intense, like aching like real needles, then like fire under my skin, then something beyond burning.
- The 47-year-old father-of-two said he suffered several attacks a day when his fingers turned white, followed by pins and needles.
- It affects the muscles used to move (voluntary muscles), but not the nerves dealing with sensation, so there is no numbness or pins and needles.
- If in addition to headaches you have muscle cramps in your legs, difficulty sleeping, or pins and needles in your hands and feet, your diet may be deficient.
- Today, I've got pins and needles in my right hand.
- My mother had been complaining of pins and needles up her right arm, but she just put it down to poor circulation.
- Both her legs were tingling with pins and needles.
- The inquest heard she reported to the A & E ward with pins and needles in her hands and legs, feeling nauseous and with a headache.
- The woman, in her 20s, complained of pins and needles in her neck and paramedics wanted to put a spine board into the back of her seat to carefully get her out the vehicle.
- She climbed on his back and lay there, felt the surface beneath start to prick like pins and needles in the rising warmth.
- I found it to be a sensation not unlike pins and needles which pulses in the hand, not painful but not pleasant either.
- He is very weak, suffers from pins and needles, and uses a wheelchair to get around.
- For eight months she had experienced pins and needles down her right side.
Synonyms prickling, tingling, sting, stinging, smart, smarting, pricking, itch, creeping sensation, goose pimples, gooseflesh
PhrasesIn an agitated state of suspense. Example sentencesExamples - You look like you're sitting on pins and needles.
- ‘Quite frankly, everyone is on pins and needles,’ she says.
- It gets pretty darn intense, and a lot of guys are on pins and needles when the weather starts changing or a cold front begins moving through right before an important qualifying session.
- During the week-long interval, she was on pins and needles.
- The rest of us were on pins and needles until they returned in about 45 minutes with the aircraft still in good shape and ready to take us out.
- I know that I was all ready to post my most exciting secrets on Saturday morning and I'm sure that you were all on pins and needles, too, but sometimes life steps in and puts other things in your path.
- He had finally perfected what he was going to say, and he was waiting on pins and needles for his chance to put all his worries to rest.
- The baseball world has been on pins and needles for weeks now, waiting for George Steinbrenner to hurl lightning bolts - or at least a few pink slips - down from the Yankee Stadium owner's box.
- Well, we're on pins and needles until we hear any confirmation, if there is any to be had on the latest rumors regarding DNA results, everyone.
- Now they sit on pins and needles, figuratively speaking, because, now that you're back, they don't know if you are to be depended upon.
- Everyone was on pins and needles to see if the elections went off smoothly and fierce legal battles could be avoided.
- Everyone is on pins and needles, waiting for the Federal Reserve to announce its decision on interest rates within the hour.
- We were on pins and needles for all the game.
- I don't regret my recent purchase; I suppose I'm just frustrated because my timing means I'll be walking on pins and needles every time I want to download/buy new software, etc.
- I didn't want to spend the rest of the evening on pins and needles, avoiding him because I was afraid of a confrontation.
- It will keep people on pins and needles for the next 48 months but we'll keep trucking along.
- She sat on pins and needles, waiting for his response.
- People are on pins and needles to see what controversial remarks high-ranking officials in the Roh administration will make next.
- With the world glued to their TVs, watching on pins and needles, NASA today scrubbed the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery at the last minute.
- I'm waiting on pins and needles for the results.
Synonyms in suspense, waiting with bated breath anxious, nervous, apprehensive, worried, worried sick, on edge, edgy, tense, strained, stressed, agitated, in a state of nerves, in a state of agitation, fretful, restless, worked up, keyed up, overwrought, wrought up, strung out, jumpy, with one's stomach in knots, with one's heart in one's mouth, like a cat on a hot tin roof, fidgety British nervy informal with butterflies in one's stomach, jittery, twitchy, in a state, uptight, wired, in a stew, in a dither, all of a dither, in a sweat, in a flap, in a tizz/tizzy, all of a lather, het up, in a twitter, waiting for the axe to fall British informal strung up, windy, having kittens, all of a doodah North American informal spooky, squirrelly, in a twit Australian/New Zealand informal toey British vulgar slang shitting bricks, bricking oneself dated overstrung
Definition of pins and needles in US English: pins and needlesplural nounpɪnz ænd A tingling sensation in a limb recovering from numbness. （肢体发麻恢复时的）针刺感 Example sentencesExamples - Savannah started to feel pins and needles in her back and her right arm turned blue a week after the accident.
- The 47-year-old father-of-two said he suffered several attacks a day when his fingers turned white, followed by pins and needles.
- Today, I've got pins and needles in my right hand.
- She complained of pain in the right shoulder and upper right arm, numbness, swelling and pins and needles in the upper right arm, pounding headache, dizziness, insomnia, weight gain.
- Nigel and Sharron said they became concerned for Emma in February last year when she began suffering from constant pins and needles down one side of her body.
- There was a tingling in my limbs like pins and needles that grew more and more intense, like aching like real needles, then like fire under my skin, then something beyond burning.
- If in addition to headaches you have muscle cramps in your legs, difficulty sleeping, or pins and needles in your hands and feet, your diet may be deficient.
- ‘They are experiencing nagging pain spreading across their backs and legs, numb fingers and recurring pins and needles,’ he says.
- I have received quite a few letters from people suffering from restless legs, pins and needles and other tingling sensations which have not been found to be caused by anything in particular.
- He is very weak, suffers from pins and needles, and uses a wheelchair to get around.
- Both her legs were tingling with pins and needles.
- She climbed on his back and lay there, felt the surface beneath start to prick like pins and needles in the rising warmth.
- For eight months she had experienced pins and needles down her right side.
- These symptoms consist mainly of tingling, numbness, a sensation of pins and needles in the extremities, and muscle aches.
- It affects the muscles used to move (voluntary muscles), but not the nerves dealing with sensation, so there is no numbness or pins and needles.
- The woman, in her 20s, complained of pins and needles in her neck and paramedics wanted to put a spine board into the back of her seat to carefully get her out the vehicle.
- I found it to be a sensation not unlike pins and needles which pulses in the hand, not painful but not pleasant either.
- The inquest heard she reported to the A & E ward with pins and needles in her hands and legs, feeling nauseous and with a headache.
- Station officer Graham Davies said: ‘He was complaining about pins and needles in his legs.’
- My mother had been complaining of pins and needles up her right arm, but she just put it down to poor circulation.
Synonyms prickling, tingling, sting, stinging, smart, smarting, pricking, itch, creeping sensation, goose pimples, gooseflesh
PhrasesIn an agitated state of suspense. Example sentencesExamples - He had finally perfected what he was going to say, and he was waiting on pins and needles for his chance to put all his worries to rest.
- I didn't want to spend the rest of the evening on pins and needles, avoiding him because I was afraid of a confrontation.
- It gets pretty darn intense, and a lot of guys are on pins and needles when the weather starts changing or a cold front begins moving through right before an important qualifying session.
- With the world glued to their TVs, watching on pins and needles, NASA today scrubbed the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery at the last minute.
- You look like you're sitting on pins and needles.
- We were on pins and needles for all the game.
- The rest of us were on pins and needles until they returned in about 45 minutes with the aircraft still in good shape and ready to take us out.
- Now they sit on pins and needles, figuratively speaking, because, now that you're back, they don't know if you are to be depended upon.
- I don't regret my recent purchase; I suppose I'm just frustrated because my timing means I'll be walking on pins and needles every time I want to download/buy new software, etc.
- I know that I was all ready to post my most exciting secrets on Saturday morning and I'm sure that you were all on pins and needles, too, but sometimes life steps in and puts other things in your path.
- She sat on pins and needles, waiting for his response.
- People are on pins and needles to see what controversial remarks high-ranking officials in the Roh administration will make next.
- Everyone was on pins and needles to see if the elections went off smoothly and fierce legal battles could be avoided.
- Well, we're on pins and needles until we hear any confirmation, if there is any to be had on the latest rumors regarding DNA results, everyone.
- Everyone is on pins and needles, waiting for the Federal Reserve to announce its decision on interest rates within the hour.
- ‘Quite frankly, everyone is on pins and needles,’ she says.
- The baseball world has been on pins and needles for weeks now, waiting for George Steinbrenner to hurl lightning bolts - or at least a few pink slips - down from the Yankee Stadium owner's box.
- I'm waiting on pins and needles for the results.
- It will keep people on pins and needles for the next 48 months but we'll keep trucking along.
- During the week-long interval, she was on pins and needles.
Synonyms in suspense, waiting with bated breath
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