an avalanche of minutes

i await your response with bated breath.
wtf?
so if one can assume that by bait we are talking about fishing...then my breath has fishing line with a worm on it, waiting for someone to reel it in? this signifies anticipation? we are supposed to be relaying that feeling of nervous waiting that a fisherman has before pulling in a soon-to-be-blobby-dead-fish?

that is the stupidest saying ever.

fact.