recharge one's battery

English

Verb

recharge one's battery (third-person singular simple present recharges one's battery, present participle recharging one's battery, simple past and past participle recharged one's battery)

1. Alternative form of recharge one's batteries
   • 2007, Deborah Smith, A Gentle Rain, BelleBooks, →ISBN, page 44:

     Maybe I'll take a few weeks off and recharge my battery.

   • 2011, Patricia Hannigan, Golf Girl's Little Tartan Book: How to Be True to Your Sex and Get the Most from Your Game, ABRAMS, →ISBN, page 65:

     Fact is, when I've got a lot on my desk, I just can't enjoy four or five hours on the course. I'm too distracted to focus. Whereas a two-hour break playing my favorite game is just what I need to recharge my battery, improve my swing, and be more efficient when I get back to work.

   • 2012, R.C. Scates, Bringing Peace into Your Inner Sanctuary, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 43:

     My parents knew that I needed a nap to “recharge my battery.” I started off my career with using what I learned from my childhood by taking a power nap every day during my lunch time to make sure that I was operating at 100 percent.

   • 2012, Patrick McGlade, Six Miles Per Hour, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 253:

     After so much talking, and meeting so many people, I was wiped out. It was time to recharge my battery and go for a run.

   • 2014, Darryl Mace, In Remembrance of Emmett Till: Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black Freedom Struggle, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 147:

     Joe, I have told you this many times before, but your friendship and our talks have kept me sane through this entire process. You continue to recharge my battery each time we talk.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see recharge,‎ battery.
   • 1928, Advertising & Selling, volume 12, M.C. Robbins, page 38:

     Two or three months ago I instructed the garage to recharge my battery. This was ostensibly done, the bill rendered and paid for.