To wait in a nervous and excited manner
The couple waited with bated breath for the ceremonies to finally get over.
I waited with bated breath to find out if my wife and child were safe outside the operation theatre for two hours.
At the time of my annual results I would always be at home, waiting with bated breath for my parents to come back and announce it to me.
The announcer announced the last number with bated breath which made the audience very anxious of the result.
She waited with bated breath to unwrap her birthday presents after the guests would leave.
After my daughter’s interview I waited with bated breath for the results to be announced.
The audience watched the circus artists’s antics with bated breath.
There is no origin for this idiom
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