catch your breath

Meaning

1. Oxford67% of films

   to breathe normally again after running or doing some tiring exercise

2. Editorial33% of films

   to pause and calm down so you can steady yourself, often said to reassure someone who is upset, scared, or rushing

   Catch your breath, lad.

   Dan, catch your breath.

In the movies · 19

• I fade just a little. I catch my breath. I find my way.National Theatre Live: Prima Facie2022
• We don t have to rest or catch our breath or eatThe Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 22012
• Catch your breath, lad.The Lighthouse2019
• Dan, catch your breath.The Mist2007
• Catch your breath. Then get back up there.Sicario2015
• meaning you're able to catch your breath...Deadpool2016
• Catch your breath.The Princess Bride1987
• Okay, well, catch your breath. I'm right here.Spider-Man: No Way Home2021

Learn it in full scenes

• National Theatre Live: Prima Facie2022
  • Ensler Lets the Witness Talk
  • Ensler Corners the Witness
  • Tessa Comes Home After the Win
• The Mist2007
  • The Mist Reaches the Store
  • David Argues With His Neighbor
  • David Argues the Mist Is Real
• The Princess Bride1987
  • Battle of Wits
  • How Westley Became Roberts
  • Miracle Max and the Mostly Dead

From the same entry

• catch your death
• catch eye
• catch it
• catch napping
• catch on the hop
• catch red - handed
• catch with their pants down
• off balance
• be in a cleft stick
• the early bird catches the worm
• catch fancy
• catch on the raw

More idioms

• stand in way
• come to the same thing
• come again
• mind you
• get away with murder
• be in a minority
• give the benefit of the doubt
• have a feel for
• know inside out
• on the back burner
• on the face of it
• pat on the back