breath : Idioms & Phrases

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babies'-breath

  • noun tall plant with small lance-shaped leaves and numerous tiny white or pink flowers
    babies'-breath; Gypsophila paniculata.
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baby's breath

  • noun tall plant with small lance-shaped leaves and numerous tiny white or pink flowers
    babies'-breath; Gypsophila paniculata.
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breath of fresh air

  • noun a welcome relief
    • the new management was like a breath of fresh air
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catch one's breath

  • verb take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
    breathe; take a breather; rest.
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Cogged breath sound

  • (Auscultation), a form of interrupted respiration, in which the interruptions are very even, three or four to each inspiration.
Webster 1913

false baby's breath

  • noun Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers; naturalized in North America
    Galium mollugo; white madder; wild madder; false baby's breath; white bedstraw.
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in the same breath

  • adverb simultaneously
    • she praised and criticized him in the same breath
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infant's-breath

  • noun Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers; naturalized in North America
    Galium mollugo; white madder; wild madder; false baby's breath; white bedstraw.
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Out of breath

  • breathless, exhausted; breathing with difficulty.
Webster 1913

shortness of breath

  • noun a dyspneic condition
    breathlessness; SOB.
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take a breath

  • verb draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs
    breathe; respire; suspire.
    • I can breathe better when the air is clean
    • The patient is respiring
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To draw breath

  • to breathe. Shak.
Webster 1913

To gather breath

  • to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get breath; to rest. Spenser.
Webster 1913

To take breath

  • to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self.
Webster 1913

To yield the breath, the ghost, ∨ the life

  • to die; to expire; often followed by up.
    One calmly yields his willing breath. Keble.
Webster 1913

Under one's breath

  • in low tones.
Webster 1913

Under the breath

  • with low voice; very softly.
Webster 1913