Vad betyder tenterhooks på svenska och vad är definitionen av tenterhooks?

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tenterhooks betydelse and definition

0 worried or nervous about something that is going to happen:
- We were on tenterhooks all morning waiting for the phone to ring.

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.