Either: a little out of breath or short of breath.
The word "breath" has a short vowel sound. The "ea" in "breath" is pronounced as a short "e" sound.
Yes. The EA in breath has a short E sound, as in death.
Yes. The EA in breath is pronounced as a short E, as in bread and death.
Nothing to do with bait, of course (as in, the cat ate a lump of cheese and waited outside the mousehole with baited breath). In fact, BATED is short for ABATED, or ceased; it just means holding your breath. Bated breath is breathing that is difficult because of emotion.
The vowel sound in the word "breath" is a short "e", even though it is written "ea".
The vowel sound in breath is short. If you added an 'e' to make breathe, then the sound would be long.
The EA pair has a short E sound as in bread. (It has a long E sound in breathe.)
Nothing to do with bait, of course (as in, the cat ate a lump of cheese and waited outside the mousehole with baited breath). In fact, BATED is short for ABATED, or ceased; it just means holding your breath. Bated breath is breathing that is difficult because of emotion.
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because people have short breath
The word "breath" has the short e vowel sound in it, as in "e"gg.