nail-biting

a nail-biting event or period of time makes you feel very nervous, usually because you are waiting for something important to happen (always before noun) The teams were very evenly matched and played a close game right up to the nail-biting finish.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
JordÃO	-	Portuguese
Guiomar	gee-oo-MAR (Portuguese), gee-o-MAHR (Spanish)	Portuguese, Spanish, Arthurian Romance
Booz	-	Biblical Latin
Aarti	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi
Babar	-	Urdu
Nelu	-	Romanian