breathing space

Noun

Meaning

a short respite

sufficient room for easy breathing or movement

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

breathing-space

Synonyms

breath breather breathing spell breathing room breathing time breathing place slack space rest room break freedom relief interval scope

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Antonyms

work occupation labour job employment chores

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Hypernyms

way rest room relief respite elbow room

Examples

It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change. Jeanette Winterson

The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for love but for breathing space. Saul Alinsky

I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been. Anthony Holden

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect. Sissela Bok

All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt. Margaret Mitchell

A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue. John Berger

Close letter words and terms

breathing rate breathing relaxation breathing room breathing speed breathing spell breathing spells