be bricking it
idiomUKvery informal
to be extremely nervous or worried:
I'm absolutely bricking it about this interview tomorrow.
I was bricking it during the filming because it wasn't at all scripted.
It's his first time on a horse and he confesses he's "bricking it."
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aflutter
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preoccupied
prey
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