Have you ever been so excited about something that you had a hard time containing your excitement? If so, then today’s idiom is for you!
Can't wait any longer
excited/can't wait
Literally translated as Can't wait any longer From Italian it means “no longer stay in one's skin”. However, the idiomatic meaning is closer to “so excited”. In English we might use the following translations:
- can not wait anymore
- feel excited
- expect
When this phrase is not used alone, it is usually followed by a preposition Every (for).
I can't wait for tomorrow's concert!
I can't wait for tomorrow's concert!
Sometimes you may come across this phrase, but no more (a little more / no longer), especially in dictionaries.However, it is more common to say more.
according to city of florence and its sources Simple but not too muchThe origin of this idiom can be traced back to the Roman poet Horace's Satires. Among these satires, Horace refers to a fable from Phaedrus about a frog who longed to grow as big as an ox. Driven by desire and excitement, the frog continually swells itself with water until it eventually bursts (or, in other words, it cannot “stay within the skin”). Horace uses Phaedrus's frog story as an example of the irreversible consequences of expecting too much from what we desire.
Heather Broster is a graduate with honors in linguistics from the University of Western Ontario. She is an aspiring polyglot, fluent in English and Italian, as well as varying degrees of fluency in Japanese, Welsh and French. Originally from Toronto, Heather has lived in several countries, notably Italy for six years. Her main research areas are language acquisition, education and bilingual teaching.
