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"bated breath", dammit!

- an old fisherman and aficionado of William Shakespeare.

https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/pardon-the-expression/ba...

FTFA: "Unless you've devoured several cans of sardines in the hopes that your fishy breath will lure a nice big trout out of the river, baited breath is incorrect."*




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