Meaning of fever pitch in English
(Definition of fever pitch from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of fever pitch
fever pitch
Life cannot go on at that fever pitch for ever.
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There were processions a mile long and at that meeting the mayor was in the chair, and enthusiasm was at fever pitch.
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Emotions are, therefore, at a near fever pitch.
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He has been worked up to this great pitch, almost fever pitch, of interest, and then the narrative begins to fall away.
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We should not raise discussion of this subject to fever pitch in that way.
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In advance of this news the gamble in railway stocks, which has doubled some of the prices in the past few weeks, reached fever pitch.
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A similar mood took hold in the mid-1990s when calls for an international treaty banning land mines reached fever pitch.
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Firstly, the pressure was raised to fever pitch at a very early stage in the proceedings.
By this point interest in the band had hit a fever pitch and it seemed destined that the band were going to make it big.
The spreading strike action reaches fever pitch and becomes a general strike, reported to the reader mostly in diary form.
The rivalry reaches fever pitch each year in autumn, when the two teams meet for an annual football game.
Opposition to his rule reached a fever pitch in the 1830s, culminating in demands for his abdication.
Emotions on both sides of the border were running at fever pitch, and the threat of a race war was on everyones mind.
By the mid-1950s mambo mania had reached fever pitch.
It opens at fever pitch and then starts soaringinto genetic fantasy, into a precognitive dream of delirium and delight.
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