à bout de souffle

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a bu d(ə) sufl/
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Adjective

à bout de souffle (invariable)

  1. breathless, out of breath
    Synonym: hors d’haleine
  2. (figuratively) on one's last legs
    être à bout de souffleto run out of steam, to have run out of puff

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