heart-in-mouth
/ˌhɑːtɪnˈmaʊθ/adjective
That causes great apprehension or alarm; anxious; thrilling. Compare to have one's heart in one's mouth.
adverb
Usually without hyphens. Anxiously; apprehensively; with trepidation.
Origin
Early 19th century (in an earlier sense). From heart + in + mouth.
- be the best (or greatest) thing since sliced bread
- be the case
- be the death of
- be the despair of
- bet-hedging
- be the end
- Bethel
- be the limit
- be (the) living proof that (or of)
- Bethel Park
- be the making of someone
- be the marrying kind
- be the most
- be the pits
- be there for
- Bethesda
- be the shit
- be the shizzle
- be the spit (or the dead spit) of
- be thick on the ground
- be thick (or thin) on the ground
- bethink
- Bethlehem
- be thrown back on
- Bethune, Henry Norman