on the rack

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on the rack

anxious, often because you are waiting for something or because people are asking you difficult questions You're left on the rack for three days waiting for the results from the hospital. Here was a respected politician being put on the rack (= asked a lot of difficult questions) by aggressive junior politicians.

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He belonged to that race of martyrs who, indissolubly wedded to their political convictions as their ancestors were to their faith, are able to smile on pain: while being stretched on the rack, he recited with a firm voice, and scanning the lines according to measure, the first strophe of the "Justum ac tenacem" of Horace, and, making no confession, tired not only the strength, but even the fanaticism, of his executioners. The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre View in context "Love never made a law so cruel, a law that would rob true lovers of each other's society for a whole month in a year, stretching them on the rack of absence--" There my period broke down, so I began another less ambitiously planned. The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context "If only some one would twist him on the rack," the Duchess murmured vindictively. The Yellow Crayon by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context			on the lookout on the loose on the margins of on the mark on the market on the mend on the merits on the money on the move on the nail on the never-never on the nod on the nose on the off chance on the off-chance on the one hand on the one hand...on the other hand on the other on the other hand on the outs on the part of on the pill on the point of doing on the prowl on the quiet on the rack on the rag on the rebound on the receiving end on the right track on the rise on the road on the road to on the road to recovery on the rocks on the ropes on the run on the safe side on the same page on the same wavelength on the sauce on the scene on the scrap heap on the shelf on the side on the side of the angels on the sidelines on the skids on the sly on the spot on the spur of the moment			on the part of on the part of on the part of On the Pause on the phone on the phone on the pill on the piss on the piss on the piss On the point on the point of doing on the port tack on the port tack on the port tack on the port tack on the port tack On the print on the prowl on the prowl on the prowl on the prowl on the Q.T. on the QT on the QT on the QT On the quarter On the quarter on the qui vive on the quiet on the rack on the rag on the rag on the rag on the rag on the rag on the rag on the rebound on the receiving end on the receiving end on the receiving end On the Record On the Record (disambiguation) On the Red Carpet on the right foot on the right foot on the right foot on the right foot On the Right Track On the Right Track On the Right Track On the Right Track On the Right Track on the rise on the road on the road on the road on the road on the road on the road On the Road (novel)

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