on tenterhooks

on tenterhooks in a state of suspense or agitation because of uncertainty about a future event 提心吊胆, 焦虑不安, 如坐针毡。

• have sb at one’s back
• ripper bill
• express messenger
• BMTA
• bale out (of)
• denervate
• disopyramide
• reallocating
• suburbanite
• fire control
• sapphirines
• universalism
• aeromechanics
• make a meal of it
• lusterware
• laces
• albedometers
• speak for itself
• polyvinyl alcohols
• whiskey tenor
• top-shelf
• corruptnesses
• pistonhead
• steamiest
• abrasion test
• Pan-Americanism
• aced
• silicon dioxides
• swan songs
• spit on
• toos
• longers
• take
• unselfconsciousness
• as thin as a wafer
• fruitwoods
• biune
• hand organ
• no laughing matter
• minicar
• arena
• sarong
• midlegs
• Grotthus mechanism
• coronary-care unit
• parallactic motion
• throw dust in someone's eyes
• underproductivity
• water carriage
• Latin rock
• Perineuriums
• Mehlis' gland
• high powered money
• woodworker's vise
• equiformal
• -iour
• what else can sb do / say?
• contraband of war
• relieve one's feelings
• Judg
• in question
• pian bois
• umiaks
• helenes
• Eskimo Pie
• amplidyne
• cartulary
• dry as a chip
• lubricate
• epigrammatizing
• fictioneering
• gloomier
• ampelography
• Elbasan
• beatifying
• microminiaturized
• extrauterine
• Podicipediformes
• body microphone
• counterpressures
• HVLS
• Yippie
• supply day
• tuyas
• self-hardening
• new-creating
• in short supply
• but that
• split on (或upon)a rock
• Vasthi
• meuniere
• overdared或 -durst
• councilman
• molehunters
• Myxinidae
• amorphous frost
• Zealand
• opalescently
• hard liquors
• pyrene