breath of fresh air

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   a welcome relief

   “the new management was like a breath of fresh air”

   Broadereasing

Questions about breath of fresh air

What does breath of fresh air mean?

breath of fresh air means "a welcome relief".

Is breath of fresh air a common word?

breath of fresh air is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.