the suspense is killing me

I can’t wait to learn the outcome. This hyperbole of impatience is a twentieth-century expression of an age-old idea. “Suspense in news is torture, speak them out,” wrote John Milton (Samson Agonistes, 1671). Jonathan Swift claimed, “It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of a spider” (Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1714), and F. E. Smedley wrote, “Suspense, that toothache of the mind” (Frank Fairlegh, 1850).

词组	the suspense is killing me
释义	the suspense is killing me the suspense is killing me I can’t wait to learn the outcome. This hyperbole of impatience is a twentieth-century expression of an age-old idea. “Suspense in news is torture, speak them out,” wrote John Milton (Samson Agonistes, 1671). Jonathan Swift claimed, “It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of a spider” (Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1714), and F. E. Smedley wrote, “Suspense, that toothache of the mind” (Frank Fairlegh, 1850). See also: killing, suspense The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: the pits, (it's) get a kick out of (something/someone), to at this juncture/moment/point in time go while the going is good get stiffed, to color of your money, let's see the what do you know, (well) God's gift to the world if the mountain will not come to Mohammed... turn over in one's grave, (enough to make one)
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