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Breath Of Fresh Air

Definition: Breath Of Fresh Air

Breath Of Fresh Air

Noun

1. A welcome relief; "the new management was like a breath of fresh air".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Breath Of Fresh Air

Specialty definitions using "breath of fresh air": Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. (references)

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Modern Usage: Breath Of Fresh Air

DomainUsage

Screenplays

He's a breath of fresh air, isn't he? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Breath Of Fresh Air

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

There came to him from time to time through the aprons of the mouths of the sewer a breath of fresh air which revived him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Breath Of Fresh Air

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

To the foreign franchiser wishing to enter the UK and European marketplaces, the legal climate will be a breath of fresh air. It will no doubt come as a relief to foreign franchisers to learn that in the UK there are no disclosure laws, no registration requirements and no laws focused on termination or renewal. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: Breath Of Fresh Air

Expressions using "breath of fresh air": go for a breath of fresh air take a breath of fresh air. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Breath Of Fresh Air

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

breath of fresh air

3
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Modern Translations: Breath Of Fresh Air

Language Translations for "breath of fresh air"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

подишам (take a breath of fresh air). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

清風 (coolbreeze). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

せいふう (coolbreeze, rectification, west wind). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eathbray ofay eshfray airay

   

Romanian

  

merge sã ia o gurã de aer (go for a breath of fresh air). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Breath Of Fresh Air

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-f-f-h-h-i-o-r-r-r-s-t"

-5 letters: forefathers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Breath Of Fresh Air


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 72 65 61 74 68      4F 66      46 72 65 73 68      41 69 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01000110 01110010 01100101 01110011 01101000 00100000 01000001 01101001 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#116 &#104 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#32 &#70 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#104 &#32 &#65 &#105 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0072 0065 0061 0074 0068      004F 0066      0046 0072 0065 0073 0068      0041 0069 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36847167867424972240847185742357584

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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