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IN THE SAME BREATH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does in the same breath mean?
• IN THE SAME BREATH (adverb)
The adverb IN THE SAME BREATH has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: IN THE SAME BREATH used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Almost simultaneously
Context example:
she praised and criticized him in the same breath
Context examples
“And now, Livesey,” said the squire in the same breath.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath—already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the center of a group and then excited with triumph glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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