clutch up

clutch (up)

in. to become very tense and anxious; to freeze with anxiety. I have been known to clutch up before a race.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Tybalt	-	Literature
Charlie	CHAHR-lee	English
Miloslava	-	Czech, Medieval Slavic
Miroslava	mee-rah-SLAH-vah (Russian)	Czech, Slovak, Russian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Slovene, Medieval Slavic
Alte (1)	-	Yiddish
VĂN	-	Vietnamese