Literally, A Web Log

Natasha and Erik write:
“When I first walked into the marvellous creation that is the opera house built for Phantom in The Venetian, I was literally gobsmacked.”
~Andrew Lloyd Webber
From the souvenir program at the new Phantom of the Opera extravaganza in Las Vegas. Perhaps he was staring a little too blatantly at a chorus girl?

Salcete injection scare keeps police on tenterhooks
The injection scare literally kept the Goa police on tenterhooks on Wednesday, with the men-in-uniform patrolling the schools in Margao and Cuncolim, to maintain a vigil over suspicious looking woman.
I had never heard this particular phrase, so I had to look it up:
kept on tenterhooks: based on the literal […]