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The Exalted Father Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

I will be nervous.

How can a native speaker expresses the underlined part in an idiom? For example, when you do something not acceptable and causing others got nervous. If you do not follow my directions, I will be nervous.
  

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" He stood before the great king, shaking like a leaf. It means that he was very nervous, and perhaps scared. "

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  • " He stood before the great king, shaking like a leaf.
  • It means that he was very nervous, and perhaps scared.
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One idiom is "shaking like a leaf."

He stood before the great king, shaking like a leaf.

It means that he was very nervous, and perhaps scared.

If someone easily gets nervous, we can call them a "nervous nellie."
If someone never gets nervous, we say they have "nerves of steel."
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The Exalted FatherIf you do not follow my directions, I will be nervous.
These idioms cover various degrees of nervousness.

I'll be in a stew (over it).
I'll be in a sweat (over it).
I'll be in a dither (over it).
I'll be climbing the walls.
I'll break out in a cold sweat.
I'll be jumpy as a cat on a hot tin roof.
It'll
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More of that:

I'll be a nervous wreck.
I'll be a bundle of nerves.
I'll be all on wires.
I'll get into a heat.
I'll be on the rack.
I'll be on the gridiron.
I'll be on nettles.
I'll be like a cat on hot bricks.
I'll be like a hen on a hot girdle.
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Anonymoushen on a hot girdle.
Either "hen in a hot girdle" Emotion: big smile or "hen on a hot griddle", I a
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CalifJim Anonymoushen a hot girdle.Either "hen in a hot girdle" or "hen on a hot griddle", I assume.CJ
Yeah, it should be "on". Sorry.
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AnonymousYeah, it should be "on"
The focus isn't on that, but on the difference between a girdle and a griddle.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=girdle&btnG=Sear
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CalifJim AnonymousYeah, it should be "on"The focus isn't on that, but on the difference between a girdle and a griddle.https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=girdle&btnG=Search+...
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