Đây là examples của từ liên quan đến tenterhooks. Nhấp vào bất kỳ từ nào để đến trang chi tiết của từ đó. Hoặc, đi tới định nghĩa của 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.
We have cases of foot and mouth and, as in many other constituencies, the farming community is on tenterhooks.
I waited on tenterhooks to hear him draw the conclusion that there should be a proportionate increase in those arms in our own forces.
I am on tenterhooks to see what happens next, and whether we will indeed be able to come to an agreement following first reading.
He lives on tenterhooks lest he should overlook an item and development take place of which he has no knowledge.
What is the point of keeping the country 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.
Some of us are on tenterhooks.
