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rsz55 | 08:28 Fri 30th Jul 2004 | Phrases & Sayings
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The poet, Shelley, seems to have been the first to use the actual phrase in the early 19th century. A rack was a medi�val torture-instrument on which people's bodies were stretched. In terms of nerves, it means that they are stretched to breaking-point by the situation.
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