Significados de as jumpy em inglês

For Christ's sake, I thought, I'm getting as jumpy as an old woman.

The murderer was making her as jumpy as the vigilantes.

This is going a little too strong; you're as jumpy to-night as a guilty conscience.

Why, you're as jumpy as a cat yourself.

It sounded as jumpy as Lisa felt.

She stood still, as jumpy and dazed as a rabbit caught in the beams of a truck.

It's as jumpy as a rabbit.

You're as jumpy as a cat.

I shouldn't be sure who I really was, and that would make me as jumpy as a sick cat.

She was as jumpy as a cat as she got out of the car and moved up toward the building.

The same group of people who were so jumpy over the shaky mortgages were just as jumpy over the CDSs.

It would wear off in time, no doubt, but at the moment I was as jumpy as a gazelle in lion country.

By standard deviation in the dispersion of returns, one common measure of volatility, wine returns are about twice as jumpy as art, stamps and bonds.

Swan didn't know if she wanted him to come closer or go away, and she felt as jumpy as a grasshopper on a hot rock.