high-strung

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Adjective

high-strung (comparative more high-strung, superlative most high-strung)

  1. (informal, idiomatic) Nervous; anxious; excited or excitable.
    Three cups of coffee made him a fidgety and high-strung lecturer.
    • 1925 July – 1926 May, A Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
      "Why, you're shakin' all over!" "I suppose I wouldn't be a medium if I wasn't high strung."