Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - pins and needles
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Pins and needles
pins and needles
~ n 1 the uncomfortable prickly feeling you get in a part of your body when a full supply of blood comes back to it after having been partly blocked (get pins and needles) (If you sit like that for too long you'll get pins and needles.) 2 be on pins and needles AmE to be very nervous and unable to relax, especially because you are waiting for something important (I wish Billy would give her a call. She's been on pins and needles all day.)
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If you have pins and needles in part of your body, you feel small sharp pains there for a short period of time. It usually happens when that part of your body has been in an uncomfortable position. I had pins and needles in the tips of my fingers. N-UNCOUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun plural Date: 1813 a pricking tingling sensation in a limb growing numb or recovering from numbness ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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