on tenterhooks

He knows he’s already gotten one of the spots, but Ruthie is still on tenterhooks.

Minutes later, reports broke that he was joining Spurs and it shows how Tel has left English football on tenterhooks.

The country was on tenterhooks at the time, as South Africa was nearing the end of apartheid, the racist system of white-minority rule.

That sentiment isn’t conducive to a night spent with an information delivery system designed to keep the audience straining on tenterhooks.

As for Israel’s response to Iran, the region - and the world - has been on tenterhooks since Tuesday.