Bag of nerves - If someone is a bag of nerves, they are very worried or nervous.
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Battle of nerves - A battle of nerves is a situation where neither side in a conflict or dispute is willing to back down and is waiting for the other side to weaken. ('A war of nerves' is an alternative form.)
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Bundle of nerves - Someone who is a bundle of nerves is very worried or nervous.
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Get on my last nerve - (USA) If something is getting on your last nerve, you are completely fed up, ready to lose your temper. (Southern USA)
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Get on your nerves - If something gets on your nerves, it annoys or irritates you.
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Hit a nerve - If something hits a nerve, it upsets someone or causes them pain, often when it is something they are trying to hide.
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Nerves of steel - If someone has nerves of steel, they don't get frightened when other people do.
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Strain every nerve - If you strain every nerve, you make a great effort to achieve something.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. nerfe, F. nerf, L. nervus, akin to Gr. ney^ron sinew, nerve; cf. neyra` string, bowstring; perh. akin to E. needle,. Cf. Neuralgia
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Fr.,—L. nervus; Gr. neuron, a sinew.
In literature:
No one, unless for the first time tonight, Mr. Dennis, realized how hard a nerve shock Jim had had in seeing his father killed.
"Still Jim" by Honoré Willsie Morrow
He was cool of nerve, self-possessed, wholly self-reliant.
"The Snowshoe Trail" by Edison Marshall
The president was a man of nerve.
"Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison" by Austin Biron Bidwell
She felt it through every nerve, and a sort of wild dread seized her of what he might say next.
"Robert Elsmere" by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Them awful wolf howls o' his hit on my nerves, they do.
"The Border Watch" by Joseph A. Altsheler
I mustn't lose my nerve.
"A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays" by Willa Cather
They acquired an extraordinary power over voice and nerves.
"The Keepers of the Trail" by Joseph A. Altsheler
Little white cords, called nerves, connect the brain with the rest of the body.
"Child's Health Primer For Primary Classes" by Jane Andrews
Its nerves are so abundant that no atom of flesh fails to get nerve and fluid supply therefrom.
"Philosophy of Osteopathy" by Andrew T. Still
I thought perhaps the silence and the solitude had got on your nerves a little.
"The Woman from Outside" by Hulbert Footner
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In poetry:
"Through Orient seas, o'er Afric's plain
And Asian mountains borne,
The vigor of the Northern brain
Shall nerve the world outworn.
"The Cable Hymn" by John Greenleaf Whittier
Yet bend and teach us not to mourn,
Unfold the hovering wing, and show
How at one rush the nerves were torn,
That bind so close to joys below.
"Sudden Death" by Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney
Oh, but! Some moments, I've the spirit stout
Of early Christians in the lion's care,
That smile to Jesus witnessing, without
A nerve's revolt, the turning of a hair!
"Birds In The Night" by Paul Verlaine
Saul. He will, he will!
Go, noble youth! be valiant and be bless'd!
The God thou serv'st will shield thee in the fight,
And nerve thy arm with more than mortal strength.
"David And Goliath. A Sacred Drama" by Hannah More
So, they are not underground,
But as nerves and veins abound
In the growths of upper air,
And they feel the sun and rain,
And the energy again
That made them what they were!
"Transformations" by Thomas Hardy
Thus spoke the man, and closed his lips became,
The fire forsook his lately flashing eye,
His nerves relax'd, and o'er his brow, the same
Dark cloud of bitter woe, could I descry.
"The Teacher" by Thomas Frederick Young
In news:
You can count on one hand the number of movies, over the decades, that have depicted Scouting and had the nerve to identify their characters as actual Boy Scouts.
Colorado wildfire leaves homes and land charred, nerves frayed .
Felix Baumgartner's supersonic jump: From start to finish , a nerve-racking, exciting feat to behold.
These deep wounds became infected, damaging the nerves in her legs.
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake rattled shelves and nerves across north Georgia.
Pain and the Nerve Root.
Starting your first "real" job can be nerve-racking.
Tight control of diabetic patients' blood glucose levels often helps prevent them from developing complications, such as kidney disease and nerve damage.
It doesn't look like the nerve center of a political, social and spiritual movement.
Talk to anyone in my business and they'll all say the same thing: No matter how long you write stories and put them in the newspaper, you are never really sure which ones are going to strike a nerve.
Scientists discover protein needed for regrowing damaged nerves in limbs.
Sudan plant sample contains VX nerve gas precursor.
Drill Simulates a Nerve Gas Attack.
Nerve Gas That Felled Tokyo Subway Riders Said to Be One of Most Lethal Known.
Felix Baumgartner's supersonic jump: From start to finish, a nerve-racking , exciting feat to behold.
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In science:
G − T ors(A)| is the nerve of the category wG − T ors(A).
From HAG to DAG: derived moduli spaces
We denote by RLocn (X ) the simplicial presheaf on D − Af f sending a cdga A to |wLocn (X )| (the nerve of wLocn (X ; A)).
From HAG to DAG: derived moduli spaces
Neural networks are described by continuous local variables related through a non– linear gain function to a local field that could represent the membrane potential of a nerve cell.
Random matrix theory and symmetric spaces
We consider the nerve functor N : SCat → sSet, given by C 7→ (homSCat (−, C) : ∆op → Set).
The Action by Natural Transformations of a Group on a Diagram of Spaces
The nerve functor sends G-categories to G-simplicial sets.
The Action by Natural Transformations of a Group on a Diagram of Spaces
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