strung up
adjective
British, informal
: very nervous, excited, or worried
Don't get so strung up about everything.
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Thousands of colorful prayer flags were strung up overhead, and every storefront seemed to be a café or a shop selling gear and souvenirs.
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Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2024
Inside were stone benches and mats made from tamarisk twigs, an altar and a heap of cowrie shells apparently once strung up in a curtain across the door.
—Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
Witnesses told police the dog had been strung up by its neck on a leash.
—Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2024
By evening, more corpses had been strung up from the station’s lampposts.
—Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times, 19 May 2024
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Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2024
Inside were stone benches and mats made from tamarisk twigs, an altar and a heap of cowrie shells apparently once strung up in a curtain across the door.
—Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
Witnesses told police the dog had been strung up by its neck on a leash.
—Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2024
By evening, more corpses had been strung up from the station’s lampposts.
—Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times, 19 May 2024
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“Strung up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strung%20up. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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