"nervous" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- That I'm a little bit of a nervous Nellie about.
- His backseater always had been a nervous Nellie on cat shots, even on routine flights.
- On CNN's Late Edition (the only pundit show taped after Meet the Press ), Susan Page opines that Gore's campaign-finance ploy worked and Tucker Carlson says that Bradley looked haughty, but Steve Roberts thinks that Gore came across as he always does--like a nervous Nellie.
- "Even the worst nervous Nellie in the world has some glimmer of a sense of invulnerability, and all of us have some of that," said Dr. Tony Stern, a psychiatrist in Westchester County, who admits he does not wear a seat belt "100 percent of the time" himself.
- "She was a nervous Nellie in the car on the way over," David Koch, 57, said later.
- Or a nervous Nellie.
- Out of his fear of being labeled a nervous Nellie, a President who lost a country to Communism, besmirching the legacy of the martyred President Kennedy, Johnson relentlessly pursued the Vietnam War.
- Sort of a nervous Nellie, but he's all right.
- Shunja Thu Jan 12, 2012 06:12 pm PST Report Abuse Kvitova is a Jankovich-type nervous Nellie.
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