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nervous hits

nervous hits is the plural of nervous hit.

Meaning of nervous hit

Noun

nervous hit (plural nervous hits)

  1. (England, idiomatic) A production which receives generally favorable notice, but is not assured of success.
    • But it hardly mattered; her singing (including "My Own Best Friend" made into a solo) and performing were so strong that few quibbled, especially as she was accomplishing a valiant task by selling out a new, somewhat nervous hit while its regular star recovered.c. 2005, Ken Mandelbaum, The Insider

Questions about nervous hits

What is nervous hits the plural of?
Nervous hits is the plural of nervous hit.

Words near nervous hits in the dictionary

  1. nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
  2. nervous as a whore in church
  3. nervous breakdown
  4. nervous breakdowns
  5. nervous hit
  6. nervous hits
  7. nervous nellie
  8. nervous nellies
  9. nervous nelly
  10. nervous nineties
  11. nervous pudding

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