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затаив дыханиеstresses
gen. with an absorbed attention; breathlessly (Азери); on the edge of your seat (Mira_G); cliff-hang; spellbound (разумеется, основной перевод – "зачарованно", но в некоторых контекстах хорошо ляжет и "затаив дыхание": children were listening spellbound to his adventures 4uzhoj); the audience sat in unbreathing astonishment; with bated breath (example by ART Vancouver: The world is watching with bated breath.); with baited breath (nrd1997)
idiom. with pent breath (Lana Falcon); with one's heart in one's mouth (Гевар)
inet. heart-in-mouth ('I was going up to the butterfly very careful, heart-in-mouth, as they say" (The Collector, John Fowles) МарияКрас)
inf. cliffhang
затаить дыхание
gen. catch one's breath; bate one's breath; bate breath; catch breath; hold my breath (Alex_Odeychuk); go breathless (VLZ_58)
lit. breath in throat (досл. "дыхание в горле": He waited, his breath in his throat, <....> (The Scarlet Gospels, Clive Barker) all78all)
Makarov. suck in breath
Makarov., inf. hold one's breath (в ожидании чего-либо)
слушать, пр. затаив дыхание
proverb with bated breath
затаив дыхание: 19 phrases in 5 subjects
Figurative1
General8
Makarov7
Rhetoric2
Sublime1