Meaning of as nervous as a witch | Babel Free

Definitions

Very nervous or restless.

Northeastern, US, especially, not-comparable

Examples

“The nerves often get clogged up, or choked up, both inside and outside: they get clogged up by humours settling on them, [...] and you become as nervous as a witch. Then again, the nervous fluid. what used to be called the animal spirits, or the marrow of the nerve, get thick and clogged; and all obstruction in it must be forced out.”

“[…] "a pinch always makes me start up as nervous as a witch, and I never could talk sense during an electric storm. I feel nervous now just to think of it."”

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