"pins & needles"?

[Enid Pearsons]

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From: "George Thompson" <george.thompson at NYU.EDU>
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Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: "pins & needles"?


|My image is not being able to sit still, as if sitting on ps & ns.

Mine too.  For those of you who want an ethnic term, I believe the
American/Yiddish equivalent is: to have _shpilkes_, translated by Sol
Steinmetz in his _Yiddish and English_ as . . . you've guessed it, 'pins'.

Enid