on tenterhooks

惶恐不安针锋相对惶惶不安惶惶不可终日

on tenterhooks 的定义

  1. To be kept on tenterhooks is to be held in a state of nervous apprehension: “We've been on tenterhooks since the election results started coming in.”

on tenterhooks 近义词

on tenterhooks

等同于 ill (at ease)

on tenterhooks

等同于 agog

on tenterhooks

等同于 expectant

on tenterhooks

等同于 ill at ease

更多on tenterhooks例句

  1. Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
  2. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
  3. You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
  4. It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.
  5. Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?
  6. I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.
  7. Kingston-on-Thames is still provincial in appearance, though now the centre of a great growth of modern suburbs.
  8. Besides the districts mentioned, tobacco is grown largely in that of Frankfort-on-the Oder.
  9. Madame Malmaison had always been a little proud of the beauty and grace and sweetness of her fitter-on.
  10. Berwick-on-Tweed lies partly in England and partly in Scotland, the river which runs through it forming the boundary line.