on the edge of your seat

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   very excited and giving your full attention to sth

   Michael Phillips: Like Hitchcock, he knows how to get you on the edge of your seat.

In the movies · 3

• We wanted to leave people on the edge of their seat.One Tree Hill: Always & Forever2012
• that is, on the edge of my seat,The Grand Budapest Hotel2014
• Michael Phillips: Like Hitchcock, he knows how to get you on the edge of your seat.Spielberg2017
• Are you at the edge of your seat GiselleEnchanted2007

Learn it in full scenes

• Spielberg2017
  • Spielberg Hides the Shark
  • Spielberg Takes the Camera
  • Spielberg Gets His Universal Contract

From the same entry

• be on edge
• take the edge off
• fray at the edges
• be on the razor's edge
• rough edges
• teeter on the brink of
• set teeth on edge
• edge out

More idioms

• take to heart
• the rules of the game
• to your heart's content
• for rent
• not to worry
• play your cards right
• be torn
• do the trick
• not a bit
• a needle in a haystack
• get out of your system
• go your separate ways