shitting a brick
Dreading the outcome
Shitting a brick is vulgar slang for experiencing extreme anxiety, fear, or nervous anticipation.
The image suggests such intense stress that one's bowels produce something impossibly difficult to pass: I was shitting a brick waiting for the test results.
Also shit a brick, shitting bricks.
- freaking outLosing emotional control suddenly
- panicUncontrollable sudden fear
- scared shitlessExtremely, viscerally afraid
- sweating bulletsIntensely nervous or worried
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
fear · heart pounding · shock · white-knuckled · on edge · dread · horror · nervous wreck · gasp · alarm · terror · gulp · stress · nervousness · losing it · trembling · apprehension · deer in headlights
shitting a brickcool as a cucumber
Extremely calm and composed
keeping one's cool · calm and collected · unflappable · collected · unfazed
shitting a brickcouldn't care less
Complete absence of concern
unbothered · nonchalant · blasé · indifferent · carefree
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