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time to catch breath

*time to catch one's breath

Fig. enough time to relax or behave normally. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give one ~.) When things slow down around here, I'll get time to catch my breath. Sally was so busy she didn't even have time to catch her breath.
See also: breath, catch, time

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Feri-Hungarian
Alene-English
SirpaSEER-pahFinnish
Fatsanifah-TSAH-neeSouthern African, Chewa
Young-Sookyung-sookKorean
Silva-Bulgarian, Slovene
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