Idiom of the day :- Cliffhanger

Usage, examples and definition of the Idiom :-

A dramatic or frightening moment when one does not know what will happen next A : The captain announced the ship had hit something and was sinking. There was only one hour to get all the passengers and crew into the lifeboats. No one was sure if it could be done — it was a real cliffhanger. B : How terrifying. Who could have expected such a disaster ? A : Well I must admit I was a little suspicious when I first boarded the ship and found it was called The Titanic. The American actress Pearl White starred in a TV series called ‘The Perils of Pauline’. Each episode would end with Pauline in a dangerous situation so that the audience would want to watch the next one to see what happened. In one episode Pauline was hanging on the edge of a cliff and this inspired the expression. Cliffhangers and cliffhanger endings are still used in TV drama series today. the expression can also describe situations in real life which are dramatic and uncertain.