get pulses racing

get pulses racing

To be very thrilling, exhilarating, or exciting. You could feel it in the air that the singer's performance was getting pulses racing. She has an intense, smoldering stare that gets pulses positively racing.
See also: get, pulse, race
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • set pulses racing
  • get (someone's) pulse racing
  • set (someone's) pulse racing
  • be hot stuff
  • rooting-tooting
  • rootin'-tootin'
  • thriller-diller
  • set the heather alight
  • set the Thames on fire
  • Thames
References in periodicals archive
The Forestry Commission is staging a bewitching Halloween event on Sunday, October 29, designed to get pulses racing with a potent brew of suspense and horror!
Face your fears in ghostly night out
SEXY Scot Hilary MacLean is sure to get pulses racing as the new girl in the BBC's doc drama Dangerfield.
Hot-stuff Hilary's a tonic!