Translations for „highly-strung“ in the English » Slovenian Dictionary

highly-strung

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He or she will be used to working in a pressure cooker environment with highly-strung, high-achieving alpha males.

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Suffice to say that these are two subtle, funny and highly-strung performances.

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Smaller monkeys such as tamarins and marmosets are highly-strung animals and live in tight-knit social groups which can be quite aggressive at times.

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It's not your fault you were born an over-thinking, highly-strung explosion of emotion.

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This was a pretty highly-strung powerplant with very high compression (and a taste for premium petrol as a result).

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In cases involving highly-strung neighbours it could even lead to fisticuffs or worse.

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She's feisty and highly-strung, traits exacerbated by the loss of her work.

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Who would be the assistant to a bunch of highly-strung, highly-stressed, highly-intelligent, sometimes-arrogant investment bankers?

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The highly-strung, often the most gifted and passionate about their subject, fared the worst because they were unsuited to crowd control, which is what a lot of teaching had become.

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The thieves, who had no prior experience with the nervous, highly-strung nature of a thoroughbred stallion, were unable to handle him.

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