Harry and Ron waited with bated breath: Malfoy was surely seconds away from telling them it was him—but then “I wish I knew who it is, ” said Malfoy petulantly. “I could help them.”
With bated breath and crouching figures they stumbled across it, and gained the shelter of the hedge, which they skirted until they came to the gap which opened into the cornfield.
I mean right now it's kind of we're all kind of waiting with bated breath to see if the Bitcoin bulls are able to finally test and maybe push over that threshold and reach $70,000 for the very first time.
A " wild goose chase" " with bated breath" " for forever and a day" is not " the be-all and end-all" , but there's " neither rhyme nor reason" for it without Shakespeare.