"I can't take anymore, my nerves are fraying," Joan Pipkins said.

At Kim's next words, her nerves frayed even more.

But other analysts say the threat is just as real for a market where nerves have frayed more each day over the last month.

But after just a month of such close confinement, his nerves had frayed to the breaking point.

It seems more than coincidence that Accorsi's nerves frayed as Manning, the young quarterback he wanted so much, started taking control of the team.

The rifle was getting heavy and her nerves were fraying.

"This is pointless," I said, my nerves frayed.

But residents' nerves frayed as they tried to make do without air-conditioning, fans and other power-guzzling, heat-beating amenities.

Finally on Monday morning, his nerves frayed, his hands shaking, he found himself in the old psychiatrist's office.

Not surprisingly, the couple's nerves are fraying.