英语词汇“on tenterhooks, to be”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	on tenterhooks, to be
释义	on tenterhooks, to be on tenterhooks, to be In a state of painful suspense. The frame on which newly woven cloth was stretched was called a tenter and the hooks used to hold the cloth in place thus were tenterhooks. Tobias Smollett appears to have been the first to use the term metaphorically: “I left him upon the tenterhooks of impatient uncertainty” (The Adventures of Roderick Random, 1748). Clothmaking has changed, and “tenterhook” today survives only in the cliché.See also: on
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