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cscholti All Messages By This Member #201059 Lardies -- ? I need your help. What term would have been used in Napoleonic times if someone had "the jitters"? Like a new recruit being very nervous in battle. ? Thanks
Robert Sulentic All Messages By This Member #201060 See? Avoir des engelures aux yeux?(having frostbitten eyes) to be afraid during an attack Une Rafale?(A gust) A frightened soldier. That last might?be related to? get/have the wind up British, informal :?to become/be afraid or nervous When they started questioning him, he?got the wind up. ?I have also seen it as "being windy"? toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 6:31?PM cscholti via <cscholti=[email protected]> wrote: Lardies -- ? I need your help. What term would have been used in Napoleonic times if someone had "the jitters"? Like a new recruit being very nervous in battle. ? Thanks
James Catchpole All Messages By This Member #201062 I was going to suggest this one. The distinction between the two is 'got the wind up' suggests an isolated event, a reaction to specific circumstances, 'being windy' implies one who is always like that. On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, 03:21 Robert Sulentic via , <rnsulentic=[email protected]> wrote:- get/have the wind up toggle quoted message Show quoted text British, informal :?to become/be afraid or nervous When they started questioning him, he?got the wind up. ?I have also seen it as "being windy"?

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