tűkön ül

Hungarian

Etymology

tű (“needle”) +‎ -k (plural suffix) +‎ -ön (“on”, case suffix) +‎ ül (“to sit”), literally “to sit on needles”

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtyːkønyl]

Verb

tűkön ül

1. (idiomatic) to be on pins and needles, be on tenterhooks, be like a cat on a hot tin roof, be like a cat on hot bricks (to wait for the beginning or the end of something restlessly, with agonizing impatience)

   Ti csak beszéltetek, én pedig itt közben tűkön ültem! ― You were just talking, while I have been sitting here on tenterhooks!

Conjugation

• For the verb, see ül.
• The inflected noun tűkön remains unchanged.