cliff-hang
Americanverb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of cliff-hang
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
On the problems of language and their solution he rather melodramatically makes man's future cliff-hang: "The next dimension of psychology, the step that may at last take us beyond a primitive mind/body empiricism, could well be semantic."
From Time Magazine Archive
A longtime critic of such programs, he decided that the cliff-hang ending had gone quite far enough.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sad fact is that Japanese audiences do not enjoy the soap opera's daily cliff-hang ending.
From Time Magazine Archive
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
