On the Edge of Their Seats

🗓️ Idiom: Keep the Audience On the Edge of Their Seats

💬 Meaning

• To keep people very interested, excited, or focused on what you are saying.
• The presentation or story is so interesting that no-one wants to look away.

🧠 Example Sentences

• Her story kept the audience on the edge of their seats from start to finish.
• The speaker used suspense to keep everyone on the edge of their seats.
• If you want to keep the audience on the edge of their seats, use strong visuals and examples.

🏛️ Origin

This idiom comes from theatre or cinema. When people are very excited or curious about what will happen next, they literally sit forward on the edge of their seats. It now means keeping an audience deeply engaged.

📝 Practice Exercises

1. Fill in the blank:
The speaker’s energy and suspenseful stories ________.

2. Multiple choice:
What does “keep the audience on the edge of their seats” mean?
a) Make the audience bored
b) Keep the audience excited and focused
c) Ask the audience to stand up

3. Rewrite the sentence:
“The audience was very interested and couldn’t stop listening.”

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