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Definition of Breath of fresh air
1. Noun. A welcome relief. "The new management was like a breath of fresh air"
Definition of Breath of fresh air
1. Noun. (idiomatic) Something relieving, refreshing, or new. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Breath Of Fresh Air
Literary usage of Breath of fresh air
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appraisements and Asperities as to Some Contemporary Writers by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1922)
"TA breath of fresh air ON EDUCATION HIS is a book after my own heart. Have you
ever held peculiar views for years and been looked at askance by your friends ..."
2. Appraisements and Asperities as to Some Contemporary Writers by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1922)
"A breath of fresh air ON EDUCATION THIS is a book after my own heart. Have you
ever held peculiar views for years and been looked at askance by your friends ..."
3. Outing (1893)
"Fact is I have felt as though we had lived in a Dutch oven ever since we came to
this beastly place, and long for a breath of fresh air. ..."
4. Consecrated Womanhood: A Sermon Preached in the First Congregational Church by Frederic Rowland Marvin (1903)
"... is like a breath of fresh air in Neapolitan church-buildings that have never
known the beauty of sunlight, and the atmospheres of which have grown heavy ..."
5. Historic and Monumental Rome: A Handbook for the Students of Classical and by Charles Isidore Hemans (1874)
"... visited by no ray of sun-light nor breath of fresh air, are shown in the
buildings added, or restored, by Alexander VI. above the antique basement of ..."
6. Twice Around the World with the Holy Ghost: Or, The Impressions and by Charles Henry Stalker (1906)
"... could scarcely get a breath of fresh air, but one could preach on stale air
in order to give them the pure Gospel. After taking the boat, the wind took ..."
7. A Book of Verses by Augustus Mendon Lord (1886)
"A breath of fresh air. So from the crowded rooms, from the giggling and dancing
and singing, (Singing Italian of course, and dancing one long weary waltz), ..."
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