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pins and needles

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pins and needles

In medicine, numbness and disturbed sensation of the limbs. It may be experienced following long periods of immobility or as a symptom of some neurological diseases.



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Then he entered the back room and took up a measure of bran, which he mixed with a great many pins and needles.
he said, looking so soothingly, not to say amorously on Miggs, that she sat, as she afterwards remarked, on pins and needles of the sharpest Whitechapel kind, not knowing what intentions might be suggesting that expression to his features:
Merlin hesitated a moment or two, and I was on pins and needles during that little while.
 
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