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It means to be anxiously waiting for something to happen.
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What is a sentence with the word tenterhooks?
The movie kept the entire theater on tenterhooks with the epic battle scenes.
What does the phrase 'waiting for a phone call you were on tenterhooks' mean?
It means 'anxiously waiting for news about someone or something'
What actors and actresses appeared in Tenterhooks - 2002?
The cast of Tenterhooks - 2002 includes: Jayke Aernan Karen Berger Kwame Ngozi Orji Charles Okafor Zack Orji
How do you use the word tenterhooks in a sentence?
Tenterhooks are vicious s-shaped hooks, used to stretch linen in the fields, one end snagged through the cloth and the other end looped over a wooden frame. Being on tenterhooks would involve having one snagged through each hand/foot, then pulled out tight - so not particularly comfortable.
What does waiting for a phone call you were on tender hooks?
Tenterhooks are hooks in a device called a tenter, used in the process of making woollen cloth. Being "on tenterhooks" means being in a state of tension, uneasiness, anxiety, i.e. feeling stretched like the cloth on the tenter.
What is the origin of the phrase on tenterhooks?
A tenter is a frame on which cloth is stretched during manufacture, so that it may dry evenly. The frame is outfitted with sharp hooks or bent nails that hold the cloth stretched. These hooks, you will not be surprised to learn, are called tenterhooks. Cloth-stretching being outside of most people's range of experience these days, tenterhook is rarely found except in the figurative expression on tenterhooks, meaning 'in a state of uneasy suspense or painful anxiety'.
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