strung up

(postpositive) informal tense or nervous

Words nearby strung up

A young boy stands feet from the strung-up body, at the front of a crowd gathered around the cross.

Islamic Extremists Now Crucifying People in Syria—and Tweeting Out the Pictures |Jacob Siegel |April 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
In spite of his caution sticks would snap and it seemed to his strung-up imagination that he was making a prodigious noise.

The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound |Harold Bindloss
His strung-up individuality had gone to pieces within him very suddenly.

Under Western Eyes |Joseph Conrad
Nevertheless, there was excitement, a strung-up look in his face.

A Spirit in Prison |Robert Hichens

He had reached a strip of slightly clearer ground when he heard a faint rustle, and he stiffened suddenly in strung-up attention.

The Gold Trail |Harold Bindloss
She had returned from London in an anxious, nervous, strung-up frame of mind.

What Timmy Did |Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes