man of nerve—a bold and courageous man:
- The study of his life would have told them that this was a man of nerve, character, and old-fashioned common sense.
Cf.: have the nerve—have the necessary courage or audacity to do smth.:
- They’ve got a stressful and dangerous job and I wouldn’t have the nerve to do what they do.
nervous man—a man of excitable temperament; smb. who is easily worried or irritated:
- He was a nervous man, one who was literally looking over his left shoulder all the time.