bated breath
aspiration, breath, breathy voice, exhalation, little voice, low voice, mumble, mumbling, murmur, murmuring, mutter, muttering, sigh, soft voice, stage whisper,
introduce - acquaint, add, admit, advance, announce, begin, blaze the trail, break the trail, bring before, bring forward, bring in, bring out, bring up, broach, christen,
top floor - clerestory, roof, rooftop, surface, topside ,
sedge - grass, oats, wheat ,
slightly - a bit, a little, barely, by a hair, by an ace, ever so little, extremely, faintly, fairly, feebly, frugally, hardly, imperfectly, in a measure, in a nutshell,
mace-bearer - bailiff, beadle, beagle, captain, commissioner, constable, deputy, detective, fed, federal, gendarme, inspector, lieutenant, marshal, mounted policeman,
have a mishap - drown, founder, run aground, sink ,
blue language - bad language, colourful language, cursing, cussing, dirty language, dirty talk, evil speaking, filth, filthy language, foul language, obscenity, profane swearing, profanity, ribaldry, scatology,
matter of ignorance - dark horse, enigma, frontier, mystery, puzzle, riddle, unknown, x ,
intercalation - aside, episode, infix, injection, insert, insertion, insinuation, interjection, interpolation, introduction, parenthesis, remark ,
trade off - barter, change, deal, do business, exchange, interchange, swap, switch, trade, trade in, traffic, truck ,
top floor - clerestory, roof, rooftop, surface, topside ,
sedge - grass, oats, wheat ,
slightly - a bit, a little, barely, by a hair, by an ace, ever so little, extremely, faintly, fairly, feebly, frugally, hardly, imperfectly, in a measure, in a nutshell,
mace-bearer - bailiff, beadle, beagle, captain, commissioner, constable, deputy, detective, fed, federal, gendarme, inspector, lieutenant, marshal, mounted policeman,
have a mishap - drown, founder, run aground, sink ,
blue language - bad language, colourful language, cursing, cussing, dirty language, dirty talk, evil speaking, filth, filthy language, foul language, obscenity, profane swearing, profanity, ribaldry, scatology,
matter of ignorance - dark horse, enigma, frontier, mystery, puzzle, riddle, unknown, x ,
intercalation - aside, episode, infix, injection, insert, insertion, insinuation, interjection, interpolation, introduction, parenthesis, remark ,
trade off - barter, change, deal, do business, exchange, interchange, swap, switch, trade, trade in, traffic, truck ,