White Knuckles

1) A terminology used to describe when someone is holding onto something extremely tight, due to a stressful or otherwise tense situation.

2) Also a synonym for someone feeling stressed, or tense about life.

"When we took that corner at 95, everyone in the car had white knuckles"

"You've had white knuckles since you got served with divorce papers, are you going to be ok?"

"We call him white knuckles, he stresses about EVERYTHING!"

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