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nervous Nellie
noun
- a constantly nervous, worried, or timid person.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of nervous Nellie1
Idioms and Phrases
An unduly timid or anxious person, as in He's a real nervous Nellie, calling the doctor about every little symptom . This term does not allude to a particular person named Nellie; rather, the name was probably chosen for the sake of alliteration. [ Colloquial ; c. 1920]Example Sentences
Stephanie, the president鈥檚 Nervous Nellie secretary, undergoes a personality change after dipping into Bernadette鈥檚 bag of pills.
鈥淥ur entire staff is safe and although the restaurant sustained incredible damage the structure of the building is intact,鈥 the ownership of Nervous Nellie鈥檚, a seafood restaurant on the beach, said in a statement.
鈥淒on鈥檛 be such a nervous Nellie. I simply told him that you had never been to a picture show and that with everyone arriving tomorrow you wouldn鈥檛 have a chance for a good long bit. And isn鈥檛 that simply a tragedy?鈥
One of the people least surprised to see Aldrich鈥檚 demeanor was his best friend from college, Utah State Coach Ryan Odom, who calls him 鈥渁 nervous Nellie.鈥
Finally, for a moment, the nervous Nellie replaced anxiety with happiness.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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