nail-biter / ˈneɪlˌbaɪ tər /
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nail-biter 的定义
n. 名词 noun- a person who bites his or her nails, especially habitually.
- a situation marked by anxiety or tension.
更多nail-biter例句
- But on Tuesday, we saw another nail hammered into the already pretty tightly nailed down coffin of the two-state solution.
- The CID speculated that the woman was confirming who lived there before planting a homemade nail bomb.
- MOSCOW—Every now and then I run into Anna Chapman at a nail salon called “Little Fingers” on Potapovsky Avenue in downtown Moscow.
- Along the way, he accidentally embeds a nail in his foot, which is not symbolic at all.
- The phrase means, “the nail that sticks out always gets hit by a hammer.”
- Piegan snorted when I told him we were on the dodge—that they were trying to nail us for holding up the paymaster.
- "Well, as far as public opinion goes, I s'pose Tom has hit the nail on the head," observed Bill.
- He pulled his heavy sweater down off a nail and put it on, scowling because the sleeves had to be pulled in place on his arms.
- He disliked the look of Cash's rough coat and sweater and cap, that hung on a nail over Cash's bunk.
- You,” said I. “You drive a nail as if it were an abstruse problem in differential calculus.