be on tenterhooksの例文

例文

1. We will all be on tenterhooks until tomorrow,
2. So I continued to be on tenterhooks.
3. The original craft of the Clothworkers was the finishing of woven woollen cloth : fulling it to mat the fibres and remove the grease, drying it on tenter frames ( from which derives the expression'to be on tenterhooks'), raising the nap with teasels ( Dipsacus ) and shearing it to a uniform finish.