freely

able to breathe (easy/easily/freely) again

1. Literally, capable of inhaling and exhaling without difficulty. Once the climbers returned from the top of the mountain, they felt like they were finally able to breathe freely again.
2. Figuratively, recuperating from a busy or stressful period of time. After a long, hectic summer, many parents feel like they are able to breathe easy again once their kids are back in school.
See also: able, again, breathe, easily

breathe easily

To relax. To be free from worry. I can finally breathe easily now that I'm done my term paper—I had been working on that thing all day every day for weeks!
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breathe easy

To feel calm or relieved because a stressful situation has ended. With your thesis defense finished, you can finally breathe easy! All week, I was worried about having to give that presentation, so I can breathe easy again now that it's done!
See also: breathe, easy

breathe freely

To relax. To be free from worry. I can finally breathe freely now that I'm done my term paper—I had been working on that thing all day every day for weeks!
See also: breathe, freely

nothing is given so freely as advice

proverb People love to give you advice about the correct way to do something or how you should approach a problem, whether you want that advice or not. A: "My mother-in-law never comes to the house to help us with the kids, though she's plenty happy to tell me how I ought to be raising them." B: "Yeah, nothing's given so freely as advice."
See also: advice, freely, given, nothing
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

breathe easy

to assume a relaxed state after a stressful period. After this crisis is over, I'll be able to breathe easy again. He won't be able to breathe easy until he pays off his debts.
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Nothing is given so freely as advice.

Prov. People will give you advice more willingly than they give you anything else. Although no one in my family was willing to give me a loan, they all had suggestions about how I could get the money from elsewhere. Nothing is given so freely as advice. Don't hesitate to ask people what they think you ought to do. Nothing is given so freely as advice.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

breathe easy

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): "Now I breathe again aloft the flood." The variant dates from the first half of the 1800s.
See also: breathe, easy
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
See also:
  • able to breathe (easy/easily/freely) again
  • able to breathe again
  • breathe again
  • easily
  • literally
  • audi alteram partem
  • allow nature to take its course
  • drift with
  • drift with (something)
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Comparison of the proportion of vehicles which move freely in a uniform flow in terms of composition (only passenger and delivery cars) and mixed (with the proportion of trucks and buses up to 14% and with the proportion of trucks and buses ranging from 18-22%)
Proportion of vehicles moving freely depending on traffic volume and proportion of trucks and buses/ Laisvai judanciu transporto priemoniu dalis atsizvelgiant i eismo intensyvuma ir sunkvezimiu bei autobusu dali/ Satiksmes intensitates un smago transportlidzeklu un autobusu ietekme uz brivi braucosu transportlidzeklu proporciju satiksme/ Vabalt liikuvate soidukite osakaal soltuvalt liiklussagedusest ja veokite ning busside osakaalust
Volf's parents freely gave a gift of forgiveness to a soldier when his careless actions resulted in the death of their five-year-old son.
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But always I will feel his love, the love that was freely given
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"At home we're not used to speaking freely about sexuality or relationships," says Abu Ghosh.
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Thus, because the owner stated that the dog was allowed to roam freely and frequently preyed on rodents, this coproantigen-positive but coproDNA-negative dog was highly suspected of being infected with E.
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