get a/ second wind

get a/your second wind

(British, American & Australian) also get a/your second breath (American)

to suddenly have new energy to continue doing something after you were feeling tired After two hours we could hardly walk another step, but we got a second wind as we neared home.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Kallikrates	-	Ancient Greek
Lino	LEE-no (Italian, Spanish), LEE-naw (Galician)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician
Valery	vah-LYE-ree	Russian
Kamila	kah-MI-lah (Czech, Slovak), kah-MEE-lah (Polish)	Czech, Slovak, Polish
Jacobs	['dʒeikəbz]
Augustin	o-goos-TEN (French)	French, Czech, Romanian, Croatian, German