fever pitch Meaning & Definition

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Meaning of fever pitch In English

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Examples of fever pitch

  • Forsythe quickly makes up for lost time as his vengeance rises to a fever pitch of violent fury.

  • Life cannot go on at that fever pitch for ever.

  • There were processions a mile long and at that meeting the mayor was in the chair, and enthusiasm was at fever pitch.

  • Emotions are, therefore, at a near fever pitch.

  • He has been worked up to this great pitch, almost fever pitch, of interest, and then the narrative begins to fall away.

  • We should not raise discussion of this subject to fever pitch in that way.

  • 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.

  • 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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