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to be on tenterhooks
biti u neizvesnosti
to be on tenterhooks
biti kao na iglama

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And enough twists and turns to keep a reader on tenterhooks until a highly satisfying ending is delivered.
www.npr.org
At the moment, we are on tenterhooks hoping that the trapped driver will miraculously be pulled out alive and unhurt.
www.stuff.co.nz
To keep someone on tenterhooks, knowing that she is likely to be watched as she goes about her daily life, seems to me remarkably cruel.
www.legalweek.com
Tenterhooks are hooks in a device called a "tenter".
en.wikipedia.org
But you're always on tenterhooks because you just know something else is lurking around the next corner.
www.electricpig.co.uk
It is not surprising, therefore, that villagers, businesses and schools are on tenterhooks over the possibility of the village losing one of its oldest friends.
www.edp24.co.uk
Now, viewers remain on tenterhooks amid speculation that she may be in the grip of more than one abductor.
www.irishexaminer.com
So now we're on tenterhooks, waiting like a nervous family in a maternity ward.
www.dailymail.co.uk
One that opts for relationship remaining on tenterhooks and another that is quite willing to improve ties by exchange of cultural events and sporting ties.
www.greaterkashmir.com
But this weekend's windfall has everyone on tenterhooks, including real estate agents, hoping to keep the money in town.
www.stuff.co.nz

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