Bated breath or with bated breath is a phrase meaning to hold one's breath in anticipation or trepidation.
Bated breath, with bated breath, or other variants may refer to:
Music
* "Bated Breath", a song by singer-songwriter Tinashe on her 2014 debut studio album ''
Aquarius''
* "Bated Breath", a song by saxophonist Rob Brown on his 2000 album ''
Visage''
* "Bated Breath/In Sickness and Health", a 1981 single by post-punk band
The Room
''The Room'' is a 2003 American independent romantic drama film written, directed, and produced by Tommy Wiseau, who also stars in the film alongside Juliette Danielle and Greg Sestero. Set in San Francisco, the film is centered around a ...
Other uses
* Bated Breath, a horse trained by Roger Charlton that won the 2012
Temple Stakes
The Temple Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Haydock Park over a distance of 5 furlongs (1,006 metres), and it is scheduled ...
* ''With Bated Breath'', a drama by
that received the Lambda Literary Award for Drama in 2010
* ''With Breath'', a 2012 audio drama by George Mann that was written as
a background novel for the ''Warhammer 40,000'' video game series
See also
*
Bate (disambiguation)
*
Bait (disambiguation)
Bait may refer to:
General
* Bait (luring substance), bait as a luring substance
** Fishing bait
Fishing bait is any bait (luring substance), luring substance used specifically to attract and fishing, catch fish, typically when angling with ...
* ''
The Merchant of Venice
''The Merchant of Venice'' is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan taken out on behalf of his dear friend, Bassanio, and provided by a ...
'' (circa 1597), Shakespeare play featuring the earliest known use of the phrase
*
Eggcorn
An eggcorn is the alteration of a word or phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements,, sense 2 creating a new phrase which is plausible when used in the same context. Thus, an eggcorn is an unexpectedly fitti ...
, idiosyncratic word substitutions such as ''baited breath'' for ''bated breath''
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