breathe easy

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
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

breathe something (of something) (to someone)

to tell something to someone. (Usually in the negative.) Don't breathe a word of this to anyone! I won't breathe a word!

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.
See also: breathe, easy
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.

breathe

easily/easy/freely
To be relaxed or relieved, especially after a period of tension.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
See also:
  • the calm after a storm
  • keel
  • even keel
  • hairy situation
  • get a grip of (oneself)
  • get a grip on
  • get a grip on (oneself)
  • get a grip on yourself
  • get/take a grip/hold on yourself
  • on a knife-edge
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