Catch My Breath. \/\/TOP\\\\

Catch My Breath. \/\/TOP\\\\

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The phrase is most commonly used in the literal sense, but it can also be used to mean that someone has gone through an emotionally challenging event or received difficult news. In this context, someone may need to catch his breath to rest or contemplate the news or event.

I was looking into the usage of 'to catch one's breath'. To my understanding, it's used to denote a pause between an intake of breath and the release. However, I was told that the idiom is more commonly rendered as 'one's breath caught in one's throat' and this got me thinking about who's doing the catching.

In the first one, the person seems to actively catch their breath. In the second one, it seems that the breath was passively caught by the throat. Since it's supposed to be a surprise reaction, the whole thing should be an involuntary action, though, right?

Ammer's treatment of definition 1 of "catch one's breath" leaves room for the expression to be understood as "be excited, anxious, or nervous" (Ammer's definition of "hold one's breath" elsewhere in the same dictionary); this is not the primary sense of "catch one's breath," however, and in any case it lacks the sense of sudden, very brief, spontaneous, and (as it were) involuntary breath holding of the sort implied by "one's breath caught." 2b1af7f3a8