cliff-hanger
悬而未决,悬崖勒马,悬崖峭壁,悬念
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Definitions
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- : a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
- : a single installment in such a serial.
- : a suspenseful movie, novel, etc.
- : the suspenseful ending itself.
- : a situation or contest of which the outcome is suspensefully uncertain up to the very last moment: The game was a cliffhanger, but our team finally won.
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Examples
This is where I think the argument against me falls off the cliff.
Would I like to tell half the people I work with to go jump off a cliff?
We first met Hajji Zalwar Khan over tea and lunch in the Pech Valley in a house clinging to a cliff high above the valley floor.
The probe appears to be sitting at the bottom of a "cliff" on the comet, but beyond that it's hard to tell.
The young goslings' first major life event is to cliff dive down to their parents, as was captured here by BBC cameras.
Only the petrol tins they took for water right and left of their pathway up the cliff; huge diamonds in the evening sun.
At dawn half a battalion of Turks tried to make the attack along the top of the cliff and were entirely wiped out.
One morning Straightshaft climbed the cliff and looked far up and down the valley.
Then everybody climbed up a hill or a high cliff and watched the coming of the bison.
There was Cliff Manning, you turned the cold shoulder to him because he couldnt talk grammar.