hardly have time to breathe
hardly have time to breathe
To be extremely busy. We're trying to finish up that big report, so I hardly have time to breathe these days.
See also: breathe, hardly, have, time
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
hardly have time to breathe
and scarcely have time to breatheFig. to be very busy. This was such a busy day. I hardly had time to breathe. They made him work so hard that he scarcely had time to breathe.
See also: breathe, hardly, have, time
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- hardly have time to think
- scarcely have time to breathe
- all the time
- not breathe a word of (something)
- able
- as I live and breathe
- As I live and breathe!
- come up for air
- clog up
- the calm after a storm