get (someone's) pulse racing



get (someone's) pulse racing

To excite, thrill, or exhilarate someone. You could feel it in the air that the singer's performance was getting everyone's pulse racing. Her quick, sultry glances from across the room got my pulse racing.
See also: get, pulse, race

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
FebeFE-be (Italian)Dutch, Spanish, Italian
TuulikkiTOO:-leek-kee (Finnish)Finnish, Finnish Mythology
NievesNYE-vesSpanish
Narcissusnar-SIS-əs (English)Greek Mythology (Latinized), Late Roman, Biblical
Petar-Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian
JukkaYOOK-kahFinnish