"save one's breath" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "saves one's breath",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "saving one's breath",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "saved one's breath",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "saved one's breath",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "save one's breath (third-person singular simple present saves one's breath, present participle saving one's breath, simple past and past participle saved one's breath)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "save one's breath to cool one's porridge"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1979, Garson Kanin, Moviola",
          "text": "If you're going to start in on me about coming back into the company — save your breath. There's no room here for me and you know it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To refrain from speech; to be quiet, especially where it would have no useful effect to speak."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "speech",
          "speech"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, chiefly imperative) To refrain from speech; to be quiet, especially where it would have no useful effect to speak."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "imperative"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to refrain from speech",
          "tags": [
            "second-person"
          ],
          "word": "kár a gőzért"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "save one's breath"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "save one's breath to cool one's porridge"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "saves one's breath",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "saving one's breath",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "saved one's breath",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "saved one's breath",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "save one's breath (third-person singular simple present saves one's breath, present participle saving one's breath, simple past and past participle saved one's breath)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1979, Garson Kanin, Moviola",
          "text": "If you're going to start in on me about coming back into the company — save your breath. There's no room here for me and you know it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To refrain from speech; to be quiet, especially where it would have no useful effect to speak."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "speech",
          "speech"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, chiefly imperative) To refrain from speech; to be quiet, especially where it would have no useful effect to speak."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "imperative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/En-au-save_one%27s_breath.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to refrain from speech",
      "tags": [
        "second-person"
      ],
      "word": "kár a gőzért"
    }
  ],
  "word": "save one's breath"
}