fever pitch

He didn't want to get them at a fever pitch too early.

By the end of May 1978, the nation was at fever pitch.

He also always brought the crowd to a fever pitch.

"I have never seen a population rise to such a fever pitch!"

By yesterday, things had reached something of a fever pitch.

"You're not going to get people into a fever pitch."

"The call for reform has now reached a fever pitch."

The new information raised their hopes to a fever pitch.

What he had to tell me brought my excitement to fever pitch.

And as they did, their excitement reached a fever pitch.