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词汇 tenterhooks
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tenterhooks n.

plural of tenterhook (late 15c.), "one of the hooks that holds cloth on a tenter," from tenter (q.v.) + hook (n.). The figurative phrase on tenterhooks "in painful suspense" is from 1748; earlier to be on tenters (1530s).

updated on April 17, 2017

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