take a breather



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take a breather

To take a short pause or hiatus (from something). You can go ahead on the hike if you want, I'm going to stop here and take a breather. The senator is taking a breather from his campaign to spend some time with his family.
See also: breather, take

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Konstantinoskon-stahn-DEE-nosGreek
FÉLixFE-leeks (Portuguese)French, Spanish, Portuguese
Nasir-Arabic
Ofra-Hebrew
Hussein-Arabic
GuntherGUWN-terGerman