"nervous" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

nervous adjetivo

nervous + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 100
nervous system • nervous breakdown • nervous energy • nervous laugh • nervous glance • nervous disorder • nervous man • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 20
(8) wreck, finger, hand
Kolokacji: 3
(9) smile, grin
Kolokacji: 2
(13) anticipation, fever
Kolokacji: 2
(15) moment, time, rhythm
Kolokacji: 3
(16) tic, cough, twitch, symptom
Kolokacji: 4
(19) relief, puff
Kolokacji: 2
(20) Nellie
Kolokacji: 1
  • 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.
verbo + nervous
Kolokacji: 10
feel nervous • look nervous • grow nervous • sound nervous • become nervous • ...
adverbio + nervous
Kolokacji: 22
extremely nervous • increasingly nervous • slightly nervous • suddenly nervous • somewhat nervous • ...
nervous + preposición
Kolokacji: 14
nervous about • nervous in • nervous at • nervous of • nervous for • ...

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