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get some air en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To invigorate oneself by breathing refreshing outdoor air, especially after departing from a building or other enclosed space for this purpose.
    • "Ah, I see! You went for a little walk to get some air!" 1907, F. Marion Crawford, chapter 6, in The Diva's Ruby:
    • [I]t was enough to send her rattling away again in a cab, through deserts of gritty streets, where many people crowded at the corner of courts and byways to get some air. 1870, Charles Dickens, chapter 20, in The Mystery of Edwin Drood:
    • "You'd better begin to get some air and exercise and quit hanging about in the house all day." 1918, Booth Tarkington, chapter 30, in The Magnificent Ambersons:
    • [H]e took occasion to remark that it was lovely on the balcony: one really got some air, the breeze being from that quarter. 1891, Henry James, chapter 1, in The Patagonia:
    • "We got out of the van to get some air on the Gower peninsula." 1995 September 26, Nick Coleman, “Ropin' and a-rhymin'”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 23 Mar 2014:
    • Gaza City had become generally calmer on Thursday after a cease-fire between Fatah and Hamas, and residents had emerged into the streets to buy food and get some air. 2007 May 17, Steven Erlanger, Jon Elsen, “Israeli air strikes target Hamas in Gaza”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Mar 2014:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
getting some air Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
gets some air Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
got some air Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
got some air Tense=Past lexicographic
take some air alternative lexicographic
gotten some air Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic

Relateds

clear one's head · take a breather · catch one's breath

Translations (5)

fr prendre l'air (invigorate oneself by breathing refreshing outdoor air) · fi haukata happea (invigorate oneself by breathing refreshing outdoor air) · hu levegőzik (invigorate oneself by breathing refreshing outdoor air) · nl uitwaaien (invigorate oneself by breathing refreshing outdoor air) · fi haukata raikasta ilmaa (invigorate oneself by breathing refreshing outdoor air)