Usually means: Avoid speaking; conserve your energy.
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  1. save one's breath: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. save one's breath, save one's breath: Collins English Dictionary
  3. save one's breath: Wiktionary
  4. save one's breath, save ones breath: Dictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (save one's breath)

verb:  (idiomatic, chiefly imperative) To refrain from speech; to be quiet, especially where it would have no useful effect to speak.


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