People in New Orleans get very jumpy if you encroach on their driveway space.
In recent weeks, he feuded with his father on HBO, contested numerous lawsuits and defended his legacy so loudly, so often, he seemed a bit jumpy, if not genuinely concerned.
"She'd get pretty damned jumpy if her husband's salary didn't come rolling in like a Pacific breaker every month, or if people stopped thinking she looked like Felicity Kendall".
Many carts plying the city's streets, delivering hay, collecting scrap and other loads, then came under stone-throwing attacks and curses from jumpy Iraqis if they lingered anywhere for long.
That said, investors remain particularly sensitive to both macro economic data and company earnings, and with Intel, JP Morgan, Citigroup and Bank of America all reporting next week, traders could be a little jumpy, particularly if one of these companies underperform expectations.
This also means that they will act jumpy and anxious if you raise your voice, so aim to keep it low and gentle.
Imagine, for a moment, if a jumpy security guard had regarded the approaching figure as a threat and responded with serious force?
If a jumpy and apprehensive visitor ascends those stairs in the hope of getting a shot in the arm in these perplexing times — she has, after all, seen New York through Depression and wartime and bankruptcy and bubble — he is likely to have his spirits deflated and then his heart, oddly, lifted.
If a jumpy and apprehensive visitor ascends those stairs in the hope of getting a shot in the arm in these perplexing times she has, after all, seen New York through Depression and wartime and bankruptcy and bubble he is likely to have his spirits deflated and then his heart, oddly, lifted.
We expect rhythms to be regular, but are surprised if the jumpy syncopation of rock'n'roll suddenly switches to four-square oompah time.
If prices are jumpy one day, they will probably be jumpy the next day too; if they are flat one day, they will probably be flat the next.Reassuringly, some of the more blatant effects weakened after academics drew attention to them.
