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be straining at the leash
idiom
to be very eager to do something that you are being prevented from doing at the present time: 热切期望（做现在不被允许做的事）
These young athletes have been training hard and are straining at the leash to compete.这些年轻的运动员训练非常刻苦，热切渴望参加竞赛。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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aflutter
agog
all of a flutteridiom
amped
entranced
evangelical
evangelistic
evangelistically
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make (all) the right, correct, etc. noisesidiom
mood
nuts
omnivorous
omnivorously
zealous
zealously
zestful
zestfully
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