Idiom
bite one's nails
Meaning
To worry or fret over something.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Stop biting your nails when you feel nervous.”
“She was biting her nails while waiting for the important exam results to arrive.”
“As the final seconds of the championship game ticked away, the fans were biting their nails in anticipation of the outcome.”
Examples
simple
“Stop biting your nails when you feel nervous.”
contextual
“She was biting her nails while waiting for the important exam results to arrive.”
complex
“As the final seconds of the championship game ticked away, the fans were biting their nails in anticipation of the outcome.”
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