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nervous wreck
nervous wreck
nervous wreck
An individual suffering from extreme agitation or worry, as in
Pat was a nervous wreck until her mother arrived at the wedding
. This expression is nearly always used hyperbolically. [
Colloquial
; c. 1900] Also see
basket case
.
See also:
nervous
,
wreck
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Gender
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Usage
Yaffa
-
Hebrew
NoÉ
no-E
(French, Spanish)
French, Spanish, Portuguese
Silvia
SEEL-vyah
(Italian)
, SEEL-byah
(Spanish)
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, English, German, Late Roman, Roman Mythology
Gabriels
-
Latvian
Ivan
['aivən]
Gazbiyya
-
Arabic
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