芒刺在背 mángcìzàibèi to be on pins and needles Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 芒刺在背 mángcìzàibèi to be on pins and needles (idiom) like having thorns and prickles in one's back; feeling extremely nervous, fearful, or uneasy, often due to a sense of being watched or threatened Frequency Movie subtitles 0.180 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.095 per million Cross-References Same as 如芒在背 rúmángzàibèi Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
芒刺在背 mángcìzàibèi to be on pins and needles (idiom) like having thorns and prickles in one's back; feeling extremely nervous, fearful, or uneasy, often due to a sense of being watched or threatened Frequency Movie subtitles 0.180 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.095 per million Cross-References Same as 如芒在背 rúmángzàibèi Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
