tenterhook

tenterhook['tentəhuk]

• n.【纺织业】拉幅钩；张布钩
• 短语:
  • on tenterhooks 提心吊胆，如坐针毡，焦虑不安[亦作on tenter-hooks，[古语]on the tenterhooks (或hooks)]
  • put(或set,strain, stretch) on the tenter-hooks
    • [罕用语]
    • 歪曲；曲解(真理、事实或词义等)
    • 违背(良心)
    • 滥用(职权)，超出(权限)
    • 使(才能等)受到严重考验

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• Upupidae
• transfer function
• Palmdale
• puma robot
• draw near
• nonsolvent
• French curves
• upstage
• air surveillance
• those were the days
• coccinellidaes
• sonnetisation
• exclusive interview
• pukes
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• wall sb↔up
• press sb's hand / arm
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• detail on
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• burn from
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• sodium tungstate
• thirty-eight
• temperate and cold scrub
• drop $50 / ￡2000 etc
• saprophagous
• penalty corners
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• lead one a merry chase
• Alvarado, Alonso de
• densifier
• pimp
• Dicranales
• bromochloromethane
• accommodate oneself
• dialysation
• be cut out for
• dang it
• optical relay
• reeb
• rigidify
• care for sb / sth
• millet-grass
• laptop
• euphem.
• sideswiped
• dacryoliths
• zoopaleontology
• yellow fat cell
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• snap-brim
• trashy
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• postings
• nber
• pull (sb) round
• base-pairing
• probabiliorism
• agglomerators
• there but for the grace of God (go I)
• demand paging
• capsizing
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• magniloquent
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• him
• wait sth↔out
• call down a curse upon someone
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• screw something up
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• Tombalbaye, Francois