The phrase "anxious hands" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state of nervousness or anticipation that is physically manifested through the hands, often in contexts related to anxiety or stress.
Example: "As she waited for the interview to begin, her anxious hands fidgeted with the hem of her blouse."
Alternatives: "nervous hands" or "trembling hands".
Tinsel and wondrous ornaments glittered on the branches, and the highest aspirations of mankind, lovingly done up in ribbons and rainbow wrappings, awaited the anxious hands of the children.
With anxious hands he searched his pockets, found his folded pay check and a ball-point pen that skipped, began to sketch a clumsy impression of what he had seen.
The 41-point winning margin may have fallen a couple of scores short of the tally required to overhaul Ireland's points differential at the top of the tree, and a couple of scores were probably lost to over-ambition and over-anxious hands.
Henry Geldzahler of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a pouting brat with anxious, twisty hands – "Oh, so you want to be a professional," his scornful denial of her appeal for help.
As part of a target-driven system, they're often anxious about handing over their responsibilities to a trainee, fearful that children will fall behind academically in the hands of a novice.
As a blind customer, I sometimes encounter sales and delivery people who are anxious at handing me change when I cannot independently tell if it is correct.
Many of the same people who assured us that we could effectively manage risk through mortgage securitization are now anxious to hand the postal service a death sentence.
The world wrings its hands, anxious and despairing.
On the other hand, if the subject is that important and interesting, wouldn't a good book jump off the shelves into anxious and curious hands?
The plucky dream girls she's played in movies like the underseen 1999 classic "Office Space" are expressive and given to anxious displays of hand waving.
He wants a quick vote to serve as a plebiscite on independence, but is also anxious not to hand power to his rival, the Catalan Republican Left (ERC) party.
