breather

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have/take a breather informalPAUSE to stop what you are doing for a short time in order to rest, especially when you are exercising 〔尤指锻炼时〕休息一下，喘一口气

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have/take a breather• Take your skis off and have a breather.• Regroup and take a breather at midday.• He was not digging at all now but taking a breather, evidently.• When the last Demon's dead, take a breather before the celebrations start.• Main picture: The female takes a breather.• Gilts, after four days of rising quotations, softened an eighth as the pound took a breather.• A party of skylarks were taking a breather from their incessant high-rise singing to indulge in an early-morning splashing.

→ heavy breather

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breather• She is playing her five starters almost exclusively, putting in B and Sandie just long enough to give some one a breather.• Members of political action committees might have hoped for a little breather before being hit up again for money.• In March, Northampton won a two-month breather from a winding-up order on more than £13,000 owed to a printing firm.• With publishers taking a slight breather after the Christmas rush, winter can be a slow season for books.

breath·er noun

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