bundle of nerves

Definitions

1. 1

   A person with an especially nervous, excitable, or fearful disposition.

   • Being in point of fact a complete bundle of nerves and nothing else, his thin figure shook like a harp-string in painful excitement at a contretemps which would scarcely have quickened the pulse of an ordinary man.
   • She is a jittery bundle of nerves rather than the tough stoic she ought to be.
2. 2

   A lively, continually active person.

   • He found Pesita pacing back and forth before his tent—an energetic bundle of nerves which no amount of hard riding and fighting could tire or discourage.

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