Keyword: Nervous

Wound up tighter than an eight-day clock

Expressions

I'm a nervous basket.

Mixed metaphors

The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off; I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer
Alcohol Golf Sports

Nervous as a cat in a room full of rockers

Characteristics Emotions Expressions

I’m jumpier than a virgin at a prison rodeo.

(1934 – 2010) American actress
TV/Movie Quotes

He was shaking like a 50¢ ladder.

Expressions

Nervous as a cow with a bucktooth calf.

Miscellaneous

Nervous as a hound pissing peach pits

Emotions Expressions

He was so nervous, he could thread a sewing machine while it was running.

Miscellaneous

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

Sweatin’ like a $2 whore in church

Miscellaneous

Sweating like a whore in church.

Miscellaneous