like a hen on a hot girdle

like a hen on a hot girdle: (like a hen on a hot (шотл. het) girdle (или griddle))

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The Bailie... had all this while shifted from one foot to another with great impatience "like a hen", as he afterwards said, "upon a het girdle". (W. Scott, ‘The Waverley’, ch. LXXI) — Все это время судья... стоял нетерпеливо переминаясь с ноги на ногу и чувствовал себя, как он позднее выразился, "словно карась на сковородке"

I was... like the proverbial hen on a hot griddle. (W. Manchester, ‘The Death of a President’, ch. 8) — я завертелся, как общеизвестный карась на сковородке.

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