nail-biting

Converse of object

face: Campaigners face a nail-biting wait to see whether the Chancellor will give approval to tax changes in what could be his last Budget.

Modifies a noun

• climax: However, this proves to be no ordinary group therapy as events reach a nail-biting climax.
• finale: The two Englishmen traded the first two games, Parke saving three match balls in the fourth to set up a nail-biting finale.
• finish: Had one of the seven singles games lost by SA gone another way, Victor might have been involved in a nail-biting finish.
• tension: There is plenty of action and nail-biting tension to keep the pages turning.
• penalty: Their victory came after a nail-biting penalty shoot out in extra time, against Inverness Calley Thistle.
• affair: The senior women's race also proved to be a nail-biting affair with five ladies teams from Central.