catch one's breath

No breaks, barely time to catch one’s breath.

The sculpture symbolises the emergence from the pandemic and a moment to catch one's breath.

Her film plunges viewers into this hothouse atmosphere so fully that it is hard to catch one's breath.

A stroll through sculpture the garden never failed to let one catch one’s breath and lower the blood pressure.

He ended by repeating that it was wonderful to find oneself “way out here” where one could, as it were, catch one's breath.