tenterhooks Betydning & definition

Eksempler på tenterhooks

• The purpose and view was to threaten the enemy and to keep him on tenterhooks, whether he believed it or not.

• I shall be on tenterhooks until that great concession comes.

• We are all on tenterhooks because we do not know whether we are in order.

• For a long time, as perhaps was his wish, he kept me on tenterhooks as to just which side of the fence he would land.

• It has all the makings of an excellent whodunnit—we are on tenterhooks to discover who will accredit whom throughout the debate.

• It would be quite impossible to keep a man on tenterhooks for 24 hours.

• They are on tenterhooks—their livelihoods are at stake and their families do not know what will happen.

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