With bated breath の意味 |使い方

The little children – and the big ones, too – will be waiting with bated breath for Santa to arrive.

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Phrase: With bated breath

Tonight’s the night!

The big guy is coming down the chimney!

All the little kiddies – and big kiddies, too – will be waiting for Santa with bated breath.

If you wait with bated breath, you wait eagerly.

You are so excited that you breathe heavily and try to control your breathing by breathing slowly.

Yes, everyone will be eagerly waiting for Christmas morning so they can discover what Santa left for them under the tree.

For me, it’s not so much what Santa brings as Christmas dinner that I wait for with bated breath.

I’m the one who cooks the turkey.

Well, actually, we have chicken because it’s hard to get a turkey in countryside Japan, but that’s not important.

I enjoy Christmas dinner with all the trimmings, hot toddies and mulled wine.

I’m getting excited even as I write this.

I can’t wait, but I’ll have to do so with bated breath.