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This is very interesting – thank you for sharing it. I think the expression may be bated breath 😉
Yes it is ‘bated breath’. Strangely enough, commonly misspelled.
I am doing a course on Shakespeare online at FutureLearn, it’s brilliant. He left us with 1700 new words too.