high-strung

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Meaning: (informal,idiomatic)Nervous;anxious;excitedorexcitable.Three cups of coffee made him a fidgety andhigh-strunglecturer.1925July –1926May,A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, inThe Land of Mist(eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia:Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:"Why, you're shakin' all over!" "I suppose I wouldn't be a medium if I wasn'thigh strung."

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