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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--white-knuckle This week's theme: words for body parts used figuratively. white-knuckle (HWYT NUK-uhl) adjective Characterized by extreme nervousness or fear. [From the appearance of blood-drained fists, clenched tightly around something, such as a fairground ride.] -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "Don't miss its awesome white-knuckle rides including: Shockwave -- Europe's only stand-up rollercoaster." 6 Free Tickets; The Daily Mirror (London, UK): Mar 11, 2005. X-Bonus Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it. -Henry Thomas Buckle, historian (1821-1862)

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