From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsecond windsecond winda new feeling of energy after you have been working or exercising very hard, and had thought you were too tired to continue He got his second wind and ran on. → second
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second wind• Cruising along on a second wind.• I won my race into a 1.5 metres per second wind.• She had got her second wind.• She seems to have acquired a second wind.• By the 1980s Borge had got his second wind and looked like going on for ever as an international touring artist.• I was drunk, okay, but I was getting my second wind by now.• So one perennial idea getting a second wind is the campaign to raise the pitifully low current minimum wage. 