to cause someone to be out of breath due to a shock or hard exercise. • Walking this fast takes my breath away. • Mary frightened me and took my breath away.
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v. phr. To surprise greatly; impress very much; leave speechless with surprise or wonder or delight; astonish. The sunset is so beautiful it takes our breath away.His refusal was so unexpected it took my breath away. Compare: CATCH ONE'S BREATH1.
take (one's) animation away
To account addition to feel intense, about pleasant, amazement or awe. Did you see Kathy's attractive new dress? It took my animation away.The comedy is stunning—it will booty your animation away!Learn more: away, breath, take
take one's animation away
Astonish or shock one, with pleasure, surprise, or some added emotion. For example, That admirable affectation aloof takes my animation away. This argot alludes to the way one holds one's animation back affected with abrupt emotion. [Mid-1800s] Learn more: away, breath, take
take one's animation away, to
To astound. This announcement is authentic hyperbole: one is so addled that one stops breathing. (The aforementioned abstraction is conveyed in the adjective breathtaking.) In the mid-nineteenth aeon Robert Browning acclimated the appellation in Dramatis Personae (1864): “He never saw . . . what was able to booty his animation away.”Learn more: breath, takeLearn more:
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