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““The people of Congo,” said Levy Mwanawasa, the president of Zambia, last month in his capital of Lusaka, “are waiting with baited breath for a positive outcome of the Sun City talks.””
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Looking for tweets for baited breath.
reesetee Only because you accidentally caught me being awake. ;-) Sep 16, 2007
jennarenn D'oh! Good catch. Sep 16, 2007
reesetee Maybe if you reel them in. I don't know about realing them in. ;-> Sep 15, 2007
jennarenn Isn't this what fish (and assorted suckers) reek of right before you real them in? Sep 15, 2007
reesetee You mean... *wait for it*
It was all madeupical?? Sep 15, 2007
uselessness J.K. Rowling can't write! It was a hoax all along! Sep 14, 2007
reesetee Oh, geez. I'd have proofread the Harry books--if only they'd asked. *indignant* Sep 14, 2007
oroboros Sally, having swallowed cheese
Directs down holes the scented breeze
Enticing thus with baited breath
Nice mice to an untimely death.
--Geoffrey Taylor, Cruel, Clever Cat, 1933
...and, get this, from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, (whose publisher could surely afford the services of a proof-reader--sez phrases.org.uk), we have:
"The whole common room listened with baited breath."
Sep 14, 2007