tenterhook
Idioms about tenterhook
on tenterhooks, in a state of uneasy suspense or painful anxiety: The movie keeps one on tenterhooks until the very last moment.
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How to use tenterhook in a sentence
The residents have been on tenterhooks since then, at the mercy of the market, unsure if each winter will be their last.
What I prefer is a hellish hovering, an endless torturing tenterhook between the two.
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British Dictionary definitions for tenterhook
/ (ˈtɛntəˌhʊk) /
one of a series of hooks or bent nails used to hold cloth stretched on a tenter
on tenterhooks in a state of tension or suspense
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