hanky-twist
verbEtymology
From the image of an anxious person twisting a handkerchief in the hands.
Definitions
To fret
To fret; to worry ineffectually.
- After years of hanky-twisting, here we are, irreversibly committed to this thing.
- Cinema's standout bad guys didn't hanky-twist their lives away whimpering “Gee, am I doing something wrong?”
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