breathing room


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breathing room

n.
1. Sufficient time to prepare for or recover from the pressing difficulties of a situation.
2. Sufficient space to fit or accomplish something: no breathing room on the crowded airplane. In both senses also called breathing space.
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Noun1.breathing room - sufficient room for easy breathing or movement; "moved to the country to find breathing room"
elbow room, room, way - space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around"
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