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http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/on-tenterhooks.html Must be a this side of the pond thing.

Another one my wife said was "I'm on tender hooks" rather than Tenterhooks. (That particular argument got a bit heated)

Maybe confusion with the James Coburn character.

I love it when people get sayings mixed up or wrong. We have a saying in the U.K. "Put the kibosh" on something, meaning to put a sudden halt to something, a deal or similar. My wife used to say "put the kite wash" An old employee once said to me that an someone had "roasted his pigeons"...

Good news.

If there were no restrictions on climbing them they'd end up looking like one of my reductions.

Scary stuff, hope things get better.