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Apart from the usual excellence in costume, design & cinematography (like most Australian films), the film is just a total miscue. At a reported budget in excess of $7m, "The Tender Hook" is a symptom of the malaise of the Australian film industry - the wrong people and the wrong projects are getting funded.
On tender hooks is a mishearing of on tenterhooks. The phrase tender hooks doesn't really make sense, though: hooks are sharp and pointy, not tender! ( Tender means "gentle, sensitive, or loving," and it can also mean "easy to chew" or "sore.")
- Where We Get The Word ‘Tenterhooks’
- Maps Used to Show Tenter-Fields
- How ‘Tenterhooks’ Got Its Current Meaning
To figure out what a tenterhook is, we have to know that long ago manufacturers kept freshly milled woolen cloth from shrinking while it dried by stretching it on a wooden frame called a tenter. It comes from the Latin word tentus, which means “to stretch.” The word ‘tenterhooks’ comes from the metal hooks that manufacturers used to stretch wool on...
According to Michael Quinion of the World Wide Wordswebsite, tenters were so numerous and common that old maps of England sometimes called out certain areas as tenter-fields. In this literal sense, the earliest reference in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1480, and the earliest full phrase I can read without butchering it is from 1518: Her na...
The figurative meaning seems to stem from the idea that the drying cloth is being strained and stretched by the tenterhooks, and by analogy, someone who is strained or stretched to wits’ end is on tenterhooks like the cloth. The first reference for this figurative sense is more than a couple hundred years later in 1748: I left him upon the tenterho...
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The Tender Hook is the second feature by writer/director Jonathan Ogilvie, and stars Hugo Weaving, Rose Byrne, and Matt Le Nevez. Producers are Michelle Harrison and John Brousek. The crew includes: director of photography, Geoffery Simpson; editor, Ken Sallows; production designer, Peter Baxter; costume designer, Cappi Ireland and composition ...
Aug 1, 2018 · One common error people make when using this phrase is to write “tenderhooks” instead of “tenterhooks.”. This may be a result of mishearing the term when spoken. Or it might just be because “tender” is a familiar English word. Unfortunately, “tenderhooks” is not a real word at all.
Apr 11, 2019 · One common error made when using this phrase is to write ‘tenderhooks’ instead of ‘tenterhooks’. This may result from mishearing the term when spoken. Or it might just be because ‘tender’ is a familiar English word, while ‘tenter’ is no longer used except in ‘tenterhooks’.
The Tender Hook. Rent The Tender Hook on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. In 1920s Sydney, an English gangster (Hugo Weaving) mentors a hard-hitting boxer (Matt Le Nevez).
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