tenterhooks nel dizionario italiano Oxford-Paravia

tenterhooks nel dizionario PONS

tenterhooks Esempi dal dizionario PONS (verificati dalla Redazione)

to be on tenterhooks
stare sulle spine
to keep sb on tenterhooks
tenere qn sulle spine

Esempi monolingue (non verificati dalla Redazione di PONS)

inglese
His fans had been kept on tenterhooks by the story because he published it in instalments and was about halfway through when he suddenly died.
www.dailymail.co.uk
At the moment, we are on tenterhooks hoping that the trapped driver will miraculously be pulled out alive and unhurt.
www.stuff.co.nz
The third game proved to be a thriller, with the capacity crowd on tenterhooks, right to the finish.
www.rte.ie
The list of culprits was published morning by morning in small installments, so that hundreds of politicians had to live on tenterhooks for months.
en.wikipedia.org
Such a scenario would keep markets on tenterhooks for the next six months.
www.dailyreckoning.com.au
Now, viewers remain on tenterhooks amid speculation that she may be in the grip of more than one abductor.
www.irishexaminer.com
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
These processes are followed by stretching the cloth on great frames known as tenters, to which it is attached by tenterhooks.
en.wikipedia.org
For all that we know the outcome, it has us on tenterhooks!
en.wikipedia.org
There is a tenter frame, with the tenterhooks to show how the cloth was dried without shrinking and how teasles were used to lift up the nap.
en.wikipedia.org

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