cliff-hang
Americanverb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of cliff-hang
First recorded in 1935–40
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A longtime critic of such programs, he decided that the cliff-hang ending had gone quite far enough.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since then, she’s largely receded from Washington’s daily doings and the cliff-hanging drama that’s surrounded the fight over the president’s agenda.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
Echo Summit, a mountain pass where cliff-hanging U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2021
Instead, producers said the camera will cut away in the cliff-hanging moment before a kiss or a punch.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
They contain no character development, B-plots, or meaty details and seem primarily designed to showcase some canonical Star Wars character or gear, while killing time before setting up the cliff-hanging finale.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2019
They just seemed to stop talking at some awkward, cliff-hanging moment and then Mom would attend to washing the dishes and Dad would silently read the newspaper.
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
Along Devonshire's cliff-hung coast, between Plymouth and Brixham, 3,000 Britons, ousted from their seaside homes by the invasion, began to move back to villages and farms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Composer Bloch was too ill to make the 3,000-mile trip from his cliff-hung home on the Oregon coast to the festival, but he was not too ill to compose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through this valley a small river flowed, having for its outlet a narrow, cliff-hung pass, which was, in fact, the principal access to the great natural amphitheatre.
From The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier by Bertram Mitford
Like torches lit for carnival, The fiery lilies straight and tall Burn where the deepest shadow is; Still dance the columbines cliff-hung, And like a broidered veil outflung The many-blossomed clematis.
From A Bird-Lover in the West by Olive Thorne Miller
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