词汇 | tenterhooks |
词根词缀 | 词源: late 15c., "one of the hooks that holds cloth on a tenter," from tenter + hook. The figurative phrase on tenterhooks "in painful suspense" is from 1748; earlier to be on tenters (1530s). |
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