be all nerves

"The guys are all nerves because it's a maintenance delay."

Her mother said it was all nerves, but what had she to be nervy about?

He was all nerves, and that fond of her!

The woman on the line was all nerves.

It is all nerves and sensibility beneath that protective crust.

Now I warrant that this woman was all nerves when she was setting your leg.

I \vas convinced it was all nerves and that she'd worked herself up into a rather curious mental state.

Bielfeldt, though, plays less than six minutes a night, and was all nerves in his first minutes on the court.

According to a 1921 article in the Musical Times, his music "is all nerves, and always has a decisive rhythmic character".

I'm all nerves as it is.

No wonder he was all nerves.

The state competition — their goal all year — began Saturday with a slew of tests, and the team was all nerves.

Paul Peters, a Union City fire captain, was all nerves as he prepared his tape recorder.

But from there the game was all Pistons, and the Knicks were all nerves.

"I don't have the confidence, I'm all nerves!

As Hannah, Emma Stone is all nerves and confusion.

The Chaplain's laugh was all nerves.

My stomach was all nerves."

She was all nerves, hypersensitive to sound and movement around her, so anxious that I worried she might suffer permanent trauma of some kind.

Julie Zorrilla seemed nothing but likable heading into Wednesday’s show, but was all nerves during her performance.

The fellow's all nerves.

He's on his way to court to argue pretrial motions in a drug-trafficking case; and he's all nerves and action.

She was all nerves and cried if he looked at her, and he was just about frantic trying to get sense out of her.

It's all nerves.