To be on pins and needles - English Vocabulary Lesson # 115 - Free English speaking lesson

To be on pins and needles - English Vocabulary Lesson # 113 - Free English speaking lesson. There are times when you are worried and excited about something that may or may not happen. The idiom ’to be on pins and needles’ basically means to be nervous, worried and excited about something that may happen. ’Pins and needles’ is a popular name for a pricking or a tingling sensation, which accompanies the recovery of feeling in a limb after numbness. As an idiom you use it when you want to express that you