In an IM conversation today, a friend of mine used the term "bated breath". As one trained (thanks, Mom!) to use language correctly (if not imaginatively), I did a quick Google search to determine the proper spelling, as well as the origination of this curious idiom - because I'd always spelled "bated" with an "i".
"Bated", as it turns out, is a linguistic corruption of "abated".
Read more about it here.
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