Puzzle Description:

What common phrase does this represent?

#1: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Mar 6, 2019 [SPOILER]

The green swoosh is only to make the puzzle solvable. It is not part of the answer.

I'm finding this one very tough. I've tried the word and all sorts of synonyms for it, but can come up with nothing that makes any sense. I'll keep trying.

Break up?

Remember these are all-text puzzles. So what are the black things on the first line??

I have no clue!

bre¨?
All

Two dots over a letter: We rather casually use “umlaut” to mean “two little dots above a letter,” but not all little dots are umlauts. The mark that prevents two adjacent vowels from combining into one syllable is called a “diaeresis” or “trema.”

Not sure how this would apply to the puzzle :)

Is it Braille for how the blind read?

I never thought of umlauts...I see the word "breath" with the edges left hanging up when the straight parts of the last two letters dropped down...actually, the last half of "breath" drops....

Breathless
Took my breath away

Is it Breaking ball?

JoDeen is very close.

breath of fresh air is all i got...

In a Whatzit, the bulk of the words of the phrase are shown. What words are shown in this?
And then, what happened to make it look like this?

Break in the wall?

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All out of breath?

I have a feeling we are all going to be wondering why we couldn't see the obvious. Or not.

Bill got it! It is "all out of breath".

Because the 'all' has fallen out of the 'breath'.

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