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white-knuckle ride en · NOUN
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An extremely exciting and nerve-racking ride at an amusement park, etc., where one's hands grip on so tightly that the knuckles appear white.
A newly-devised ‘white-knuckle’ ride in a funfair was named ‘the Braveheart ride’.
2003, Colin McArthur, Brigadoon Braveheart and the Scots, IB Tauris, page 139:
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A car ride or bike ride that is similarly nerve-racking, provoking fear of a crash.
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(figuratively) Any extremely exciting or nerve-racking experience.
They must be insane to think Judy Finnegan would retire from the daily white-knuckle ride that is live television with Richard Madeley.
2007, The Guardian, G2, 22 Jun., p. 3:
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