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white-knuckle

[ hwahyt-nuhk-uhl, wahyt- ]

adjective

Informal.
  1. causing fear, apprehension, or panic:

    The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.

  2. experiencing fear, terror, or apprehension:

    The white-knuckle crowd loved that director's newest horror movie.



white-knuckle

adjective

  1. causing or experiencing fear or anxiety

    a white-knuckle ride

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President Donald Trump is sweating his party's white-knuckle grip on the House of Representatives, and he's pulled yet another Cabinet nomination to avoid making the GOP's legislative troubles any worse.

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It’s kind of a white-knuckle ride.

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So while “Juror #2†is no white-knuckle movie, it is a slow-squeeze conscience trap, as well as a keen prism through which to stress-test our own ethics.

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Compared with Pacino’s outraged and outrageous Cohn, spraying a vulgarian’s spittle across Nichols’ magisterial “Angels,†Strong’s performance is a model of white-knuckle control, swaggering when Cohn exerts his power, wilting when he can’t.

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It was a thrilling, exhausting, white-knuckle ride.

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