Although Chilean rose hairs are among the most easygoing and benign of tarantulas — they rarely bite and their venom is not particularly dangerous — unfamiliar vibrations can make them skittish.
Anxiety over Greece's bail-out package and the British election's outcome, and two previous days of declines, all made investors skittish.
Mr. Hochschild suggested that the outstanding legal challenges to the cap and trade program, one of which was filed by the Chamber of Commerce on the eve of the Nov. 14 auction, made investors skittish about the program's long-term viability and thus depressed the price.
But the unstable economy made investors skittish (the recession of 1991 was looming) and the condominium project was abandoned.
The farm machinery maker posted record profit for the second quarter, but an ominous warning that increased materials costs could eat into earnings for the remainder of 2008 made investors skittish.
The crack of the bat made me skittish.
But the system of checks and balances has been tightened, making lenders increasingly skittish.
He recently told The Wall Street Journal that the controversy surrounding him had made law firms "skittish" about hiring him, calling himself "one of the many casualties of the war on terror".
Greentech companies often face high production costs and initially low profits, a combination that makes some investors skittish.
She's not so good at trying to make a skittish gay teenager trust her.
