as nervous as a witch
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.94 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
3
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The nerves often get clogged up, or choked up, both inside and outside: they get clogged up by humours settling on them, [...] and you become as nervous as a witch. Then again, the nervous fluid. what used to be called the animal spirits, or the marrow of the nerve, get thick and clogged; and all obstruction in it must be forced out."
- "[…] "a pinch always makes me start up as nervous as a witch, and I never could talk sense during an electric storm. I feel nervous now just to think of it.""
Usage
- American usage
Inflected Forms
nervous as a witch (canonical)