one's heart is in one's mouth

"My heart was in my mouth from beginning to end."

For a moment my heart was in my mouth.

My heart was in my mouth as I turned my head.

My heart was in my mouth the whole time."

Each time I thrust it home to the hilt my heart was in my mouth.

Here's a sample: "I have a daughter and two grand children there, my heart was in my mouth.

"When you stood face to face with Bartlett, my heart was in my mouth.

My heart was in my mouth when it was being filmed,".

We went to the christening and my heart was in my mouth it was on edge the whole time.

My heart was in my mouth in case he came in and saw the pictures.

I felt positively stalwart in the presence of such collapse, though my heart was in my mouth.

I can tell you my heart was in my mouth when I walked into that room to find you."

It was a fine duel, but I don't mind admitting that my heart was in my mouth throughout.

My heart was in my mouth; but I felt my only chance was bluff, and walked steadily towards him.

Suddenly my heart was in my mouth and I was thinking, come on, kid, come on, you can do it!

When I rode up to that Farlain fort my heart was in my mouth.

Really," she drawled to Rosemary and Lite, "my heart was in my mouth when I came straight down by that rock.

'So when I saw the way the dog was behaving, my heart was in my mouth,' Dearden continued.

My heart was in my mouth when he told that officer to call him my lord, and when he said he'd have his tongue cut out... well!

When I first looked at my watch (my heart was in my mouth) I thought it must be four o'clock; it was barely two.

"Here goes," I said, stepping out; but I confess my heart was in my mouth as I thought of going through the heart of that monstrous herd.

As you can imagine my heart was in my mouth all through the deathbed scene, hoping against hope that the old man would not give way, that is, take the course he eventually did."

"The way he went down, my heart was in my mouth," said Pitino, who watched Saunders bend Ewing's knee back and forth, asking him if he felt anything or heard something pop.

As soon as he dismissed me I hurried to the apartment where I had left Janai, and my heart was in my mouth for fear that I should not find her there.

Some of them could not have been less than from fourteen to fifteen feet, and my heart was in my mouth as I went at each of them, for a slip would have been my ruin.