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как (будто, словно, точно) на иголках (на иглах) (быть, сидеть и т. п.)разг.sit < as if> on pins < and needles>; cf. sit on thorns; be on tenterhooks (on edge, on nettles, on the anxious bench, on the gridiron); be all on wires; be < like a cat> on hot bricks (coals); be on the tiptoe of expectationМарья Ильинична сидела как на иголках; язык у неё так и свербел. (А. Пушкин, Арап Петра Великого) — Marya Ilyinishna sat as if on needles and pins; her tongue itched to speak...
Рогожин смотрел в недоумении и в ужасном беспокойстве переводил взгляды то на князя, то на Птицына. Дарья Алексеевна была как на иголках. (Ф. Достоевский, Идиот) — Rogozhin looked on with amazement and great anxiety, turning his eyes from Myshkin to Ptitsyn. Darya Alexeyevna seemed on tenterhooks of expectation.
Страх, что он может не выиграть, зависть и финансовые соображения, наполняющие его стриженую голову, не дают ему сидеть спокойно, сосредоточиться. Вертится он, как на иголках. (А. Чехов, Детвора) — The fear that he may not win, envy, and the financial combinations of which his cropped head is full, will not let him sit still and concentrate his mind. He fidgets as though he were sitting on thorns.
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