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Spontaneous emergence of grammar.
Answer Firstly, it's "highly strung", or sometimes "high-strung". There are at least two possible origins for the phrase, one from stringed Musical Instruments and the other from Archery, the latter from a bow which has been over-strung, that is with a too-short string. The implication with both possibilities is that an implement with a string too tight is on the verge of some sort of breakdown, just as with a person who it's suggested is "highly strung" is nervy and jumpy and not completely in control.
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∙ 17y agohttp://www.shopfloortalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=80749 The average medium sized piano has about 230 strings, each string having about 165 pounds of tension, with the combined pull of all strings equaling approximately eighteen tons. A person high strung would very tense, as in a piano. That's where the phrase "high strung" came from.
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