Yard Stick
A yard stick — for measuring against a fixed standard — often touches much anxiety even as your affairs take on unusual activity. The dream may ask where you're busily measuring things against some exacting standard, and whether the rush of activity, however productive it looks, is shadowed by a worry that you're not measuring up.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for yard stick, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of a yard stick, foretells much anxiety will possess you, though your affairs assume unusual activity.