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What does like a cat on a hot tin roof mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word like a cat on a hot tin roof? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. (simile, colloquial, chiefly US) Jumpy, nervous.
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I would work days with hardly any sleep, and finally my nervous system collapsed, so the doctor put me on tranquilizers which set me up like a cat on a hot tin roof.
I am like a cat on a hot tin roof, walking around the house in the early hours of the morning, struggling to type because my hands are shaking in agony.
He is no longer like a cat on a hot tin roof when it comes to putting the pieces together.
DeFrancesco runs wild over the keyboard like a cat on a hot tin roof before the orchestra recapitulates the pungent main theme.
He's like a cat on a hot tin roof with ants in his pants and frogs in his shoes playing death or glory golf.
Michael has been like a cat on a hot tin roof, locked in an internal struggle of agonising proportions … It was never going to be easy.

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