in the same breath

1. 1.

   almost simultaneously

   “she praised and criticized him in the same breath”

Questions about in the same breath

What does in the same breath mean?

in the same breath means "almost simultaneously".

Is in the same breath a common word?

in the same breath 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.