nervous wreck (to be a) [n]

Meaning:

• to be very stressed out about something.

Examples:

1. Tomorrow the list of qualified applicants will be announced. I wish I will be one of them. I am really a nervous wreck.
2. I was a nervous wreck waiting for the test results.
3. He became a nervous wreck before his wedding day.
4. Don’t turn into a nervous wreck; everything will work out.
5. Before her big presentation, she was a nervous wreck.