like a cat on hot bricks BrE
like a cat on a hot tin roof AmE

Ever since they'd descended he'd been like a cat on hot bricks, agitating to get away.

He was like a cat on hot bricks.

Hopping about like a cat on hot bricks when a little reasoned thought would serve you better.'

I don't know, except that he's made Thaddeus behave like a cat on hot bricks.

'Like a cat on hot bricks, ain't she?'

"When Bill walked in like a cat on hot bricks and stood there looking stuffed, that was just the Personality That Wins!"

Prevention, responsiveness and resources: in short, everything needs to be done to ensure that southern Europe will no longer inevitably be like a cat on hot bricks.

'Fortescue is hopping like a cat on hot bricks, demanding something should be done, but he has no more idea than I what can be done.

Romeo One had the bag over his shoulder and was still looking like a cat on hot bricks as he checked left and right of him, still seeing nothing.

As for poor Great-uncle, he's so scared of falling over mats or brushes left about that he walks like a cat on hot bricks - lifting up his feet very gingerly indeed."

Mr Cubbage was like a cat on hot bricks, he was most distraught at Coleen's decision to go to England, and he bombarded her with letters and flowers; he could not wait for her return and for her to say the one word that would make her his wife.

Clayton was like a cat on a hot tin roof.

She has been like a cat on a hot tin roof ever since she heard her lover is back in town.

"I feel like a cat on a hot tin roof," Mr. Sullivan said in court recently.

You can keep your checkbook, but I want it balanced next month, balanced like a cat on a hot tin roof!"

"Like a Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"

"I knew Freddie was up to something because he was jumping around like a cat on a hot tin roof," Wadkins said.