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second wind en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A renewed feeling of energy after having reached the point of exhaustion.
   • X gained a second wind last year when Mr. Trump won the election. Some advertisers, courted by Ms. Yaccarino, returned to the platform partly because of Mr. Musk’s adjacency to the president. 2025 July 9, Mike Isaac, Kate Conger, “X CEO Linda Yaccarino Says She Is Leaving Elon Musk’s Platform”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2025:
   • As I get up to leave, she [Tracey Emin] gets a second wind and starts to rant about the state of education, the NHS, the Post Office, the contaminated blood scandal … 2024 May 29, Simon Hattenstone, “The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2024:
   • Don't forget your second wind / sooner or later you'll feel that momentum kick in 1985, Billy Joel, “You're Only Human (Second Wind)”:
   • There is no need to describe how they toiled back up the gorge. It was pretty hard work, but oddly enough everyone felt more cheerful. They were getting their second wind; and the word supper had had a wonderful effect. 1951, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia, London: Geoffrey Bles, →OCLC:

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Relateds

wind sprint · runner's high · find another gear

Translations (12)

ru второе дыхание (renewed feeling of energy) · fr second souffle (renewed feeling of energy) · es segundo impulso (renewed feeling of energy) · az ikinci nəfəs (renewed feeling of energy) · es aire nuevo (renewed feeling of energy) · es segundo viento (renewed feeling of energy) · pl drugi oddech (renewed feeling of energy) · fi voimanpuuska (renewed feeling of energy) · cs druhý dech (renewed feeling of energy) · es segundo hálito (renewed feeling of energy) · es segundo huelgo (renewed feeling of energy) · de neuer Auftrieb (renewed feeling of energy)