单词 | pins and needles |
释义 | pins and needlesuncountable noun If you have pins and needles in part of your body, you feel small sharp pains there for a short period of time. It usually happens when that part of your body has been in an uncomfortable position. I had pins and needles in the tips of my fingers. [+ in] pins and needles in British Englishnoun (functioning as singular) informal 1. a tingling sensation in the fingers, toes, legs, etc, caused by the return of normal blood circulation after its temporary impairment 2. on pins and needles pins and needles in American English a tingling and prickling feeling in some part of the body, esp. in a limb that has been numb Idioms: on pins and needles Examples of 'pins and needles' in a sentence |
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