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The pause that turns a slumping afternoon into a second chance.
means Something — usually a drink or light snack — that revives you, or the act of being restored and renewed.
from From the Old French 'refreschir,' to make fresh again, built on the same 'fresh' that English already knew — cool, new, unspoiled. The 're-' is the little prefix of doing-again, so a refreshment is literally a re-freshing: the world made crisp once more. By the time it settled into English in the late Middle Ages it carried both meanings at once — the renewal you feel and the cup of something cold that delivers it.
- Origin
- From Latin 'reficere', to remake or restore
- Brain reset
- Cold water actually sharpens alertness and focus
- Marketing gold
- Coca-Cola sold 'pause that refreshes' since 1929
- Sleep link
- A short nap counts as genuine refreshment
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