nail-biting

/neyl-bahy-ting/US // ˈneɪlˌbaɪ tɪŋ //

咬指甲,咬钉子,咬牙切齿,咬甲

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : the act or practice of biting one's fingernails, especially as the result of anxiety or nervousness.
- : Informal. nervousness: The announcement that the trade agreement had been signed ended a week of nail-biting on Wall Street.

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : Informal. causing nervousness: The nail-biting part of the canoe trip was through the stretches of white water.

as inon edge

Forms: nail-bitings

Synonyms

But on Tuesday, we saw another nail hammered into the already pretty tightly nailed down coffin of the two-state solution.
Abramson, biting her tongue, was widely portrayed in rival outlets as classily above the fray.
The CID speculated that the woman was confirming who lived there before planting a homemade nail bomb.
MOSCOW—Every now and then I run into Anna Chapman at a nail salon called “Little Fingers” on Potapovsky Avenue in downtown Moscow.
Along the way, he accidentally embeds a nail in his foot, which is not symbolic at all.
"All right," said Dan, biting off a big chew from the plug he was holding, and restoring the rest to his pocket.
With her little satin shoe she tapped the carpet, biting her under lip and seeming to be listening.
Piegan snorted when I told him we were on the dodge—that they were trying to nail us for holding up the paymaster.
The day had been intensely cold, with a biting north-east wind and black frost.
The keen wind found me out and seemed to take joy in rushing in on me in biting gusts and then whirling away over the flat.

/neyl-bahy-ting/US // ˈneɪlˌbaɪ tɪŋ //

咬指甲,咬钉子,咬牙切齿,咬甲

n.名词 noun

1
- : the act or practice of biting one's fingernails, especially as the result of anxiety or nervousness.
- : Informal. nervousness: The announcement that the trade agreement had been signed ended a week of nail-biting on Wall Street.

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : Informal. causing nervousness: The nail-biting part of the canoe trip was through the stretches of white water.

as inon edge

Forms: nail-bitings

Synonyms

But on Tuesday, we saw another nail hammered into the already pretty tightly nailed down coffin of the two-state solution.
Abramson, biting her tongue, was widely portrayed in rival outlets as classily above the fray.
The CID speculated that the woman was confirming who lived there before planting a homemade nail bomb.
MOSCOW—Every now and then I run into Anna Chapman at a nail salon called “Little Fingers” on Potapovsky Avenue in downtown Moscow.
Along the way, he accidentally embeds a nail in his foot, which is not symbolic at all.
"All right," said Dan, biting off a big chew from the plug he was holding, and restoring the rest to his pocket.
With her little satin shoe she tapped the carpet, biting her under lip and seeming to be listening.
Piegan snorted when I told him we were on the dodge—that they were trying to nail us for holding up the paymaster.
The day had been intensely cold, with a biting north-east wind and black frost.
The keen wind found me out and seemed to take joy in rushing in on me in biting gusts and then whirling away over the flat.