Idiom
Will you, pleased, teach me an idiom or idioms about someone who’s afraid of something that’s not really happening. For example, a child is going to have an injection. He’s afraid, closing his eyes and shaking when the doctor still hasn’t injected him yet.

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to have heart in one's mouth: e.g. As she waited in the waiting room full patients, she had her heart in her mouth. -= she was extremely nervous.

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Like a cat on hot bricks - nervous, agitated

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