take a breather
take a breather
To take a short pause or hiatus (from something). You can go ahead on the hike if you want, I'm going to stop here and take a breather. The senator is taking a breather from his campaign to spend some time with his family.
See also: breather, take
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- take a hike
- get back to
- get back to (doing) (something)
- Time out!
- Time!
- mouth breather
- mouth-breather
- pregnant
- pregnant pause
- a pregnant pause