To do anything else was going to have us all walking on pins and needles.

"I'm on pins and needles, trying to get my life in order."

"But we are on pins and needles in every one of our nine states."

"I guess you can say that we are all on pins and needles," said a Japanese official.

So you are on pins and needles to find out the size of your first printing.

"We were sitting on pins and needles waiting for Andy to call."

We'd been waiting on pins and needles for some word that you were alive.

"Th' old man is sitting on needles, though, and he wants to see you in the worst way."

I was on pins and needles all day thinking about it.

She said she'd rather spend the rest of her life on red-hot needles than see me like that for one second.