pin

clean (or neat) as a new pin extremely clean or neat.

for two pins I'd, she'd, etc. - used to indicate that you are very tempted to do something, especially out of annoyance.

2005The Press (York) I even wrote a Street script, aged nine, and sent it in. It included a line for Betty Turpin, talking about Annie Walker: 'For two pins I'd knock her block off.'

pin your colours to the mast: seecolours.

on pins and needles in an agitated state of suspense.

☞ Pins and needles is the pricking or tingling sensation in a limb recovering from numbness.

you could hear a pin drop there was absolute silence or stillness.

pin your ears back listen carefully.