What does "give someone the jumps" mean?
Solution 1:
It is an AmE slang term for “nervousness”:
the jumps:
1930 [US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 71: The driver looked so much like the bird that had driven Dot Ellis on her last trip that it gave me the jumps.
1963 [US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 43: He had the jumps so bad he couldn’t sit still.
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