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Meanings of nervous wrecks in English

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Usage of nervous wrecks in English
1
They were nervous wrecks and had gone as far as they planned to.
Kill bin laden: a delta force commander's account of the hunt fo...
2
Do we want them to be anæmic, pessimistic, nervous wrecks?
On the Firing Line in Education
3
We are both nervous wrecks this afternoon.
A Rock in the Baltic
4
They may be in normal health or may already be nervous wrecks from causes over which the school has no control.
Vocational Guidance for Girls
5
They will go into a drug store in this part of the city where such things are sold, weak, shaky, nervous wrecks.
The Ear in the Wall
6
By the time that Hermine (aged sixty-three), Helene (fifty-nine) and Gretl (fifty-six) were finally released on bail they were nervous wrecks.
The house of wittgenstein: a family at war
7
All piano Johnnies that way-nervouswrecks, what!
Ruggles of Red Gap
8
"Oh, yeah, we'll be nervous wrecks as it is, so why not make us two drunk nervous wrecks?" Katie replied.
Hearts of grey
9
"We need the change; we've lived too long in a high altitude, and we're nervous wrecks, both of us," he had argued.
The Fighting Shepherdess
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