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n. (alternative form of catch-breath English)
Usage examples of "catch breath".
At last he reached the palace roof and stopped to catch breath enough to call out.
Both sides had paused to catch breath, it seemed, staring at each other across the fallen, but making no move to attack.
At the spot where the ravine opened into Bedesdale, they stopped to catch breath.
The spectators will be content if there are no long delays, if the condemned is permitted to speak briefly and does it well, if the upraised blade gleams in the sun for a moment before it descends, thus giving them time to catch breath and nudge one another, and if the head falls with a satisfactory gout of blood.
He'd slowed down, and a couple of times he'd stopped to catch breath or to ponder.
Nevertheless he did not pause to catch breath or balance but pulled the lever that would make the door swing out.