Collocations for "nervous"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "nervous" in context.
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nervous
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- am too nervous to [sleep, eat, stop]
- am nervous to [go, begin, try]
- am nervous about the [meeting, performance, day]
- am nervous that [I will fail, you will forget]
- am nervous because
- am a nervous wreck [today, lately]
- am nervous but excited
- I was already (feeling) nervous!
- [the wait is, you're] making me nervous
- get (very) nervous when
- always get nervous before [a performance, a race, I go on stage]
- there is nothing to be nervous about
- there is no need to be nervous
- sounds (like he is) very nervous
- the [wait, delay] is making me nervous!
- a nervous [crowd, audience]
- [release, full of] nervous [tension, energy]
- waiting with nervous [expectation, anticipation]
- had a nervous breakdown
- has a nervous disorder
- affects the (central, peripheral) nervous system
- a nervous [affliction, condition, disease, tic, tremor]
- [viewers, those, someone] of a nervous disposition
'nervous' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
anticipation
- anxious
- apprehensive
- both
- brain
- calm
- central
- chuckle
- cluster
- confident
- cough
- disposition
- edge
- excited
- excitement
- flutter
- hardly
- howl
- increasingly
- scared
- shy
- sound
- speak
- speech
- stammer
- state
- strain
- stutter
- super
- tangible
- tense
- tone
- trainee
- twitch
- wait
- walk
- wedding
- wee
- woman
- wreck