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in one breath

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(all) in one breath
Fig. spoken very rapidly, usually while one is very excited. Ann said all in one breath, "Hurry, quick! The parade is coming!" Jane was in a play, and she was so excited that she said her whole speech in one breath.
See also: breath, one


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I think our cast is diverse and talented," she said in one breath.
Can middle-class fans relate to drivers who try to act like the common man in one breath and then in another describe how they love their $100,000 sports cars, exotic vacations, Manhattan apartments and shopping sprees on Rodeo Drive?
 
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