Translations for „tenterhooks“ in the English » German Dictionary

ten·ter·hooks [ˈtentəhʊks, Am -tɚ-] N pl

tenterhooks

Spannhaken m

to be [kept] on tenterhooks

wie auf glühenden Kohlen sitzen

to be on tenterhooks to do sth

es kaum abwarten können, etw zu tun

to keep sb on tenterhooks

jdn auf die Folter spannen

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to keep sb on tenterhooks

jdn auf die Folter spannen

to be on tenterhooks to do sth

es kaum abwarten können, etw zu tun

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

We are all on tenterhooks, waiting to perceive slights, threats or insults to our national identity.

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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.

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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.

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Tenterhooks, on the other hand, are little hooks used in medieval times for stretching cloth.

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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.

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The third game proved to be a thriller, with the capacity crowd on tenterhooks, right to the finish.

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Floating fragments hang on hooks and the idiom of being on tenterhooks drifts away from the performing area and into the minds of those watching.

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Everyone around him was on tenterhooks, afraid of making a wrong move and invoking his wrath.

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But you're always on tenterhooks because you just know something else is lurking around the next corner.

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So now we're on tenterhooks, waiting like a nervous family in a maternity ward.

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