Es un sin vivir

[bonidan]

Are we in Angst ? Could well be sinvivir ! Me tienes en un sinvivir ! Ich bin so gespannt! (Du machst mich so neugierig)
Translates to : I am on edge ,you arouse my curiosity

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by bonidan

Are we in Angst ? Could well be sinvivir ! Me tienes en un sinvivir ! Ich bin so gespannt! (Du machst mich so neugierig)
Translates to : I am on edge ,you arouse my curiosity

It could to works.

Sin vivir when someone get disillusioned.

[Ambarina]

Originally Posted by poli

To be on pins and needles is to be anxt ridden. It may not necessarily be negative. Example: You can see the nominated actor on pins and needles just before they announce the winner.

http://www.goenglish.com/OnPinsAndNeedles.asp

Apparently the expression you use in the US but I believe is no longer used in the UK from the looks of it (I certainly never heard it in 24 years) comes from Hamlet. http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_b...ssages/71.html

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by poli

To be on pins and needles is to be anxt ridden. It may not necessarily be negative. Example: You can see the nominated actor on pins and needles just before they announce the winner.

http://www.goenglish.com/OnPinsAndNeedles.asp

Well, it's news to me. That ain't BrE.

Originally Posted by Ambarina

Apparently the expression you use in the US but I believe is no longer used in the UK from the looks of it (I certainly never heard it in 24 years) comes from Hamlet.

And it ain't the Shakespeare Hamlet either.

[poli]

It's not Shakesperian but it is British coined by (at least according to brief internet research) author John Poole who wrote something called "Hamlet travestie" back in the early half of the nineteenth century. The Shakespearian parody includes
the phrase pins and needles with the contextual meaning of anxious anticipation.

[Here4good]

I have never heard of to be on pins and needles only to have pins and needles.

I would say that sin vivir is a desperate situation that doesn't let you live a full life, like looking after an old relative night and day and never having time to yourself is a sin vivir situation, and isn't related to being on tenterhooks or similar which suggests a positive experience.

[poli]

Originally Posted by Here4good

I have never heard of to be on pins and needles only to have pins and needles.Really? I thought that's what tailors have.I would say that sin vivir is a desperate situation that doesn't let you live a full life, like looking after an old relative night and day and never having time to yourself is a sin vivir situation, and isn't related to being on tenterhooks or similar which suggests a positive experience.

Well, then if sin vivir is a condition that borders on pathology, I suppose a term we use and is most likely used in the UK as well would be eaten alive with anxiety/worry (devorado por ansiedad)

[ROBINDESBOIS]

Es un sin vivir implies many things, among them, anguish, desperation, annoyance, anger, fear etc... I suppose there are different expressions depending on what we want to express in Spanish.