a nail-biting event or period of time makes you feel very nervous, usually because you are waiting for something important to happen.

The teams were very evenly matched and played a close game right up to the nail-biting finish. (always before noun)

• every last
• every man for himself
• every man jack
• every man jack of us
• every man jack them
• every nook and cranny
• every now and again
• every now and then
• every once in a while
• everyone and his brother
• Everyone has their cross to bear.
• every other
• every other something
• every so often
• everything but the kitchen sink
• Everything in the garden is rosy.
• Everything's coming up roses.
• everything under the sun
• every time someone turns around
• every time someone turns round
• every time turn around
• every time turns around
• every time turns round
• every time you turn around
• every Tom, Dick, and Harry