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nail-biting /ˈneɪlbʌɪtɪŋ /adjectiveCausing great anxiety or tension: a nail-biting final game...- Dorking will have to endure a nail-biting final game of the season.
- Months of anxious waiting and nail-biting tension came to an end this week for more than 2000 local students who were anxiously awaiting the big occasion.
- They had to endure almost constant second half pressure, wasting countless opportunities to ease the nail-biting tension and, quite frankly, inviting trouble.
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