fever pitch

1. 1.

   a state of extreme excitement

   “the crowd was at fever pitch”

   Broaderexcitement

Questions about fever pitch

What does fever pitch mean?

fever pitch means "a state of extreme excitement".

Is fever pitch a common word?

fever pitch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.