| 单词 | pins and needles |
| 释义 | pins and needles (once / 24624 pages) n If you stand up after sitting with your legs crossed for a long time, you might feel pins and needles, a prickly, tingling sensation in your legs. But if say you’re sitting on pins and needles, you’re nervous and anxious! When your foot falls asleep, it feels like pins and needles. That sharp, almost painful tingling as feeling returns is almost like being jabbed with pins. If you’re really nervous about something, that feels like pins and needles too. If you’re in the hospital waiting for someone to have a baby, you’re probably on pins and needles! In medical terminology, the physical kind is called paresthesia, but most people just call it pins and needles. WORD FAMILYpins and needles USAGE EXAMPLESShe was diagnosed with MS in 1996, after pins and needles in her left hand made her drop a jug of milk on the floor. Nature(Nov 29, 2016) “Please be patient, the bars are open,” was State Party Chair Susan Hutchinson’s advice to a crowd on pins and needles. Seattle Times(Nov 08, 2016) Anyone making an election-themed show days or weeks in advance in 2016 had better have a tolerance for sitting on pins and needles. New York Times(Oct 24, 2016) n a sharp tingling sensation from lack of circulation Hyper prickling, tingle, tingling a somatic sensation as from many tiny prickles |
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