- Look up with
bated breath or bate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Bated breath or with
bated breath is a
phrase meaning to hold one's
breath in anti****tion...
- Look up bate,
bated, or
bating in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bate may
refer to: Baté, a
village in
Hungary Bate (Attica), a deme of
ancient Attica...
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Morning Juliet)
Bryden MacDonald 1960
playwright Whale Riding Weather, With
Bated Breath D. R.
MacDonald 1939 novelist,
short stories Cape
Breton Road, Lauchlin...
- Language, the
first serious work of its type.
Expressions such as "with
bated breath" (Merchant of Venice) and "a
foregone conclusion" (Ot****o) have...
- to-do", etc.) bandy, as in "bandy about" or "bandy-legged"
bated, as in "wait with
bated breath",
although the
derived term "abate"
remains in non-idiom-specific...
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Pullum suggested using egg corn
itself as a label. "baited breath" for "
bated breath" "beckon call" for "beck and call" "damp squid" for "damp squib"...
- extra-terrestrial life. Earth's po****tion
waits for
further contact with
bated breath, but does not have to wait long.
Within days,
mankind is all but...
- Millar, that
notably included the
following lines: To
those waiting with
bated breath for that
favourite media catchphrase, the "U" turn, I have only one...
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Hamlet and Laertes.
Laertes uses his sharp,
poisoned sword instead of a
bated (dull) sword. The King
provides a
poisoned drink as a
backup measure. Before...
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takes on Mr. Hyde".
Chicago Tribune. Malcolm,
Derek (16
November 1972). "
Bated breath". The Guardian. No. 12. London. Mills, Bart (24
August 1976). "What...