As excited as a

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

I was as excited as a kid at Christmas.

So right now he's sitting here in his tux, sober as a judge and as excited as a kitten.

Radio 5 Live has gone all giddy, as excited as a teenager finding a Squirtle in the fridge.

Nevertheless, there is enough charge in the air tonight, and I am as excited as a schoolboy to be on the edge of nowhere, enjoying a dreamlike adventure.

As the famous team buses of Sky, Movistar, Ettix-Quickstep, Tinkoff-Saxo and more pulled in, I felt every bit as excited as a 10-year-old.

"I'm as excited as a kid at Christmas," he tweeted, adding a reference to the nickname Giles came by in his playing days.

I get as excited as an entire stadium of supporters at an Indian cricket match does whenever one Indian woman makes sporting news in the UK.

On the appointed day, I was as excited as, well, a kid.

There, still bearing its maker's signature yellow paint, was something that makes many American executives here as excited as Mr. Tuat: a brand-new, $32,000 ,480-horsepower Caterpillar engine.

I read it again last year, and felt almost as excited as I did as a child when, relieved of the silver in his pockets which had been dampening his magic, Christopher lifts the roof off his tutor's house.

They were as excited as children going to a school square dance.