breathing time

Knoblauch employed some late gamesmanship after the goal, putting Skinner in net to get his players a few extra seconds of breathing time.

Last week the U.K. government extended the deadline for forming a new government by a year in an attempt to buy breathing time to find a solution.

Last month, the two sides gave themselves breathing time by delaying until the end of September a ban on chilled meats such as sausages from England, Scotland and Wales from going to Northern Ireland.

Now you might have thought I would have wanted some breathing time between Platonovs, or whatever they call themselves.

Will Ferrell calls “Saturday Night Live” “a living, breathing time capsule.”