bundle of nerves

noun phrase

: a very nervous person
I was a bundle of nerves.

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Normally the picture of sprezzatura, he had been reduced to a chain-smoking bundle of nerves during the cocktail hour and appetizer course. Julia Vitale, Air Mail, 13 June 2026 The show is mostly known in the States for launching the career of Rachel McAdams, but it can’t be understated how incredible Goss, playing the festival’s temperamental artistic director, is in it, a fraying bundle of nerves and passion that threatens to collapse on himself at any moment. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 20 Feb. 2026 This message is sent deep inside the brain to the amygdala, a tiny bundle of nerves that serves as our chief arbiter of curiosity and avoidance. Julia Daye, Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2025 If regional anesthesia is used, the anesthetic may be injected in the spine (spinal epidural block) or a shallow bundle of nerves behind the knee called the popliteal fossa. Stuart Hershman, Verywell Health, 27 June 2023

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“Bundle of nerves.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bundle%20of%20nerves. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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