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Discover Ludwig"nervous tic" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an informal expression which refers to a repeated movement or gesture made by someone who is feeling anxious or distressed. For example, "He had a nervous tic where his eyes kept twitching."
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"It was sort of a nervous tic".
Might it be the nervous tic?
"I have a nervous tic," explains the Canadian-born musician.
It appears every few pages here like a nervous tic.
"You look like you have a nervous tic," when I tap at the touch pad.
He coughed in a compulsive way, as if he had a nervous tic.
Huge becomes 'yuge'; the worn catchphrase "millionaires and billionaires" almost a nervous tic.
Yet Qaddafi went on saying, almost as though it were a nervous tic.
And his twitching eye — a nervous tic, they say — is unusually active.
Develop a nervous tic or tension in an eye, and she instantly picks up on it.
He added: "Your every unflattering gesture and nervous tic will be recorded with devastating precision".
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