tenterhooks Определение На български

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Examples of tenterhooks

  • Some of us are on tenterhooks.

  • All the time that he was keeping us on tenterhooks he was defending something on which he had not been attacked at all.

  • What is the point of keeping the country on tenterhooks?

  • He lives on tenterhooks lest he should overlook an item and development take place of which he has no knowledge.

  • I am on tenterhooks to see what happens next, and whether we will indeed be able to come to an agreement following first reading.

  • I waited on tenterhooks to hear him draw the conclusion that there should be a proportionate increase in those arms in our own forces.

  • We have cases of foot and mouth and, as in many other constituencies, the farming community is on tenterhooks.

  • It will be welcomed by the work force, whose members have been on tenterhooks for about 18 months.

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