breathing space 
noun
An opportunity to pause, relax, or decide what to do next: we all need a breathing space during the working week [mass noun]: the delay gave him some breathing space...
- It was meant to be a one-day pause to give the banks a breathing space but the shut down is now going to last all week.
- Another insight she imparts is that anti-depressants don't work for everyone, but they can give a person breathing space.
- I sat down and watched the world go by, feeling the panic melt, or, more accurately, the new breathing space it freed up as it left.
- Nicol prism
- Niconian
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- Nicorette
- Nicosia
- nicotian
- nicotiana
- nicotic acid
- nicotinamide
- nicotinate
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- nicotine-like
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- nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
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- nicotinic amide
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- nictating membrane
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- nictitant