- feeling brambles and thorns in one's back (idiom)
- uneasy and nervous
- to be on pins and needles
Characters
- 芒 (芒): awn (of cereals); arista (of grain); tip (of a blade); Miscanthus sinensis (type of grass); variant of 邙, Mt Mang at Luoyang in Henan
- 刺 (刺): (onom.) whoosh
- 在 (在): to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
- 背 (揹): variant of 背[bei1]
Resources
- Wiktionary: 芒刺在背
- MDBG: 芒刺在背
- Examples with 芒刺在背 on Tatoeba
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