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English Expression: A case of the jitters
This guy, the guy in the picture, looks like he has a severe case of the jitters.
When you have a case of the jitters, you feel some anxiety and anticipation before doing something that makes you feel nervous.
Oh yes, it seems as if he is feeling some anxiety and anticipation before he goes up in a perfectly good airplane and jumps out.
I’ve never been parachute jumping before, but I’ve bungee jumped and just like the guy in the picture, I had a severe case of the jitters right before I dropped.
Honestly, I almost didn’t jump, but you know what Eleanor Roosevelt said, ‘Do one thing every day that scares you.’
Well, by bungee jumping, I did one thing that scared me for about six months.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 73.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
