white(-)knuckle/-ed/-ing

Meanwhile, I was white knuckled, gripping the steering wheel and driving with my mouth open because I could barely breathe.

My daughter will be riding with me in a couple of weeks and will probably have a comment or four on my driving but that's life. I still recall a few white knuckled trips with her too.

I totally understand your fear. I went through this too when I sent my stones to whiteflash. I was white-knuckled for almost three weeks until the ring came back and it was perfect.

The picture itself is about, yes, cycles, and as tiresome as that sounds, 10 minutes into the film you'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away.

The coming days will be white-knuckle time for vendors and shippers, too.

The course changes will be white-knuckle maneuvers for scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA, who lost the Mars Observer in 1993 over a math error and the Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander, both in 1999.

But I'm going to be white-knuckle for the next year-plus until it comes out, tense and uneasy, wondering if it's going to be good or not.

A white-knuckle ride

A White-Knuckle Christmas (Psychology magazine)

My severe case of white knuckle disease started the moment we got on a main road, where you would think the speed limit is 110 mph, but it is actually only 35 (60kph).

White knuckles = Alcoholics Anonymous slang. A "white-knuckle drunk" stays sober only through desperate, constant vigilance, taking as much time and energy as drinking. It may be alcohol-free, but it's not considered real sobriety.

CELL is classic Stephen King, a story of gory horror and white-knuckling suspense that makes the unimaginable entirely plausible and totally fascinating.

That's better than white-knuckling down the road in the pickup, skidding off the road and plummeting into the Wissahickon Valley Gorge, IMO.

I take it that's happened to you before? Or was that a completely hypothetical scenario? You have to admit, white-knucle driving is much more fun.

If stress is fun, then yes, white-knuckling is very very fun.

Ron’s knuckles were white on the steering wheel.

Langdon knew on any other day his knuckles would have been white. At the moment, however, he felt anesthetized.