@smcc Stuff are correct on this occasion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenterhook It's the appropriate use of the word.

smcc: Queensland on tenterhooks after four-year-old girl tests positive to COVID-19

 

What the ... is a Tenterhook? a tenderhook in a field? I am no English Master but these people use words for a living.

 

"Tenterhooks or tenter hooks are hooked nails in a device called a tenter. Tenters were wooden frames which were used as far back as the 14th century in the process of making woollen cloth. The phrase "on tenterhooks" has become a metaphor for nervous anticipation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenterhook

100% correct usage

Technofreak:

 

Im pretty sure the vet didn't use bovine TB to kill the Alpaca 

PolicyGuy:

 

100% correct usage

 

 

 

Thanks, I apologise and Withdraw.

(Note to self google before posting))

smcc:

PolicyGuy:

100% correct usage

 

Thanks, I apologise and Withdraw.

(Note to self google before posting))

elpenguino

 

If you hear something wrong often enough you might think that's the right way.

You should save that thought for prosperity.

 

…. and/or posterity.

At least it's not posteriority!

Behodar:

 

At least it's not posteriority!

 

Yeah, that would be a bummer.

elpenguino:

Technofreak:

 

Im pretty sure the vet didn't use bovine TB to kill the Alpaca 

I was also confused. How do you use TB to kill an alpaca? Seems a random method.

In the old days, showing my age, it was done along these lines:

Alpaca with TB killed by vet

These days it's more:

A vet met an alpaca. You won't believe what happened next.

eracode:

Behodar:

At least it's not posteriority!

Yeah, that would be a bummer.

Tenterhooks are literally "tent" hooks used to stretch out fabric. Over many centuries, fabrics made from natural fibres have been stretched when they are made because otherwise they become shrunken and misshapen.

elpenguino: 

To say that you'd have to be some kind of a**hole.

 

That reminds me of an old story, possibly an urban myth, about when the Rolling Stones first came to NZ in the 1960’s and visited Invercargill. Arriving in the city centre by taxi, Mick Jagger allegedly said “Jeez, this place must be the a**hole of the Earth”.

Quick as a flash, the taxi driver replied “Yeah, and you’re just passing through”.

EDIT: Fact Check: Seems part of the story is true. The taxi driver is an invention - but why let that get in the way of a ‘passable’ joke.

https://www.google.com/search?as_q=Invercargill&as_epq=Mick+jagger&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=Nz&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&tbs=

NZH today: “Warriors CEO Cameron George has expressed disappointment in his player's on-field behaviour.”

Only one?? Wasn’t the whole team crap?