ascua
ember ; firebrand ; coal ; burning coal ; hot coal.
The director continued speaking amid the embers of their mirth.
By such mutual assistance, the wits and endeavours of the world may no longer be as so many scattered coals, or firebrands, which, for want of union are soon quenched, whereas, being but laid together, they would have yielded a comfortable light and heat.
He investigates the evolution of these vegetable lanterns from such sources as Irish traditional myths about a figure who carried a lantern lit with a coal = He investigates the evolution of these vegetable lanterns from such sources as Irish traditional myths about a figure who carried a lantern lit with a coal.
I have become a fakir but I haven't started tramping barefoot over burning coals, meditating, levitating, or living on air and I have no foreseeable intention of doing so.
If you can walk on hot coals you can accomplish anything you put your mind to..
en ascuas
on tenterhooks
Homeowners are on tenterhooks today waiting for banks to announce if they are raising interest rates again.
estar en/sobre ascuas
put + Posesivo + life on hold
Posesivo + life + be + on hold
sit on + the edge of + Posesivo + seat
sit on + pins and needles
Among those putting life on hold this year, 28 percent said it was due to a lack of savings.
Her life was on hold for almost 18 months as she waited for a kidney transplant.
The audience members will alternately find themselves roaring with laughter and sitting on the edge of their seats in suspense.
Microsoft has had us sitting on pins and needles awaiting version 8 of their historic Operating System.
sobre ascuas
in suspense
The audience members will alternately find themselves roaring with laughter and sitting on the edge of their seats in suspense.
