take a breath | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)toinhaleand subsequentlyexhaleair1963,Margery Allingham, chapter 15, inThe China Governess: A Mystery, London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC:She paused andtook adefiantbreath. ‘If you don't believe me, I can't help it. But I'm not a liar.’; (idiomatic)topauseorrestafterstrenuousactivity; (idiomatic)tocalm down

Examples:

EN: You get to your feet, take a breath, and start spouting.
ES: Se pone en pie, respira y empieza a hablar.
EN: I didn't know what I was doing any more than when you take a breath.
ES: No supe lo que hacía más que cuando tú respiras.
EN: Stop and take a breath.
ES: Para y respira profundo.
EN: Yes... Let's take a breath of fresh air to the cemetery!
ES: Salimos a tomar el aire al cementerio.
EN: When you take a breath, it's got a clean taste, like nobody never used it before.
ES: Al respirar, el aire es puro, como si nadie lo hubiera respirado antes.
EN: So they take their minds off things... and take a breath of fresh air, they're always locked in here...
ES: Así se divierten un poco... Les da un poco el aire, aquí dentro están encerrados...
EN: They come over here and before they can take a breath, they're telling us how to run the show.
ES: Vienen a este país, y antes de tomar aire ya nos están diciendo cómo hacer las cosas.
EN: But you let Henry Terrill run my cows off of the Big Muddy and 24 of 'em died of thirst before I could take a breath.
ES: Pero le dejó ahuyentar a mis vacas de Big Muddy, y, en un respiro, 34 de ellas murieron de sed.
EN: Do they ever take a breath?
ES: ¿Nunca respiran?
EN: This place of atonement, of damned souls and misery... with nothing to relieve you, no comfort... no water for your parched tongues... no place to rest or take a breath... but the everlasting, infinite convulsions of misery... forever... and ever and ever!
ES: Es un lugar de expiación de almas malditas y miseria... con nada que los alivie. No hay agua para sus lenguas resecas, ni lugar para descansar. Sólo hay las eternas, infinitas convulsiones de la miseria.
EN: Now, take a breath of fresh air.
ES: - Ahora, toma aire fresco.
EN: Don't you ever stop to take a breath?
ES: - ¿No se detiene para respirar?
EN: Go out and join the ones outside. Meanwhile, take a breath of fresh air.
ES: Haz compañía a los de fuera y, de paso, tomas el fresco un poco.
EN: To live and love and take a breath and watch the scenery
ES: *Vivir y amar y tomarse un respiro y contemplar la perspectiva
EN: Now... take a breath.
ES: Ahora... respire hondo.

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