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breathe easy
Idioms and Phrases
Also, breathe easily or freely . Relax, feel relieved from anxiety, stress, or tension. For example, Now that exams are over with, I can breathe easy , or Whenever I'm back in the mountains, I can breathe freely again . This idiom originally (late 1500s) was put as breathe again , implying that one had stopped breathing (or held one's breath) while feeling anxious or nervous. Shakespeare had it in King John (4:2): 鈥淣ow I breathe again aloft the flood.鈥 The variant dates from the first half of the 1800s.Example Sentences
There were enough boxes ticked for Japan to breathe easy - but the main purpose of Ishiba's visit was personal.
To anyone worried that 鈥淢egalopolis鈥 would be the only risky, expensive late-career epic from a Hollywood legend to premiere at this year鈥檚 Cannes Film Festival, breathe easy.
If 鈥 and this is a rhetorical if 鈥 you鈥檙e still traumatized by the last shot of Bing Bong, the forgotten imaginary friend in Pixar鈥檚 鈥淚nside Out,鈥 breathe easy.
Well we can all breathe easy that Gooch will be at Valhalla.
But we have many billions of years before our star鈥檚 demise is set to begin, so breathe easy.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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