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What does "My nerves are shot." mean?
Dec 19, 2010 11:26 PM
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meaning:
in bad condition because of being used too much or treated badly:
My nerves were shot to pieces after my driving test.
December 20, 2010
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this is a fixed expression.
in this sentence, "to be shot" means to be "to not work anymore because of overuse".
in this sentence 'nerves' means our emotional state.
so this means, "right now my emotional state is very bad, I am not comfortable and very anxious". something like that.
December 20, 2010
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