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break someone
Idioms and Phrases
- break one
Example Sentences
Around this time, my dad taught me some self-defense—how to break someone’s grasp on my wrist, how to carry my keys when walking through a parking lot at night so I could stab an attacker.
Talk about, and this was a big one for me, the fact that our police officers should not break someone's back when they arrest them.
It was perplexing: Five hundred people had reportedly attended an earlier stop in Fayetteville, Ark. “Is it spring break?” someone asked.
Carl Chegwin, whose mother also received the text, said he was left upset by the out-of-the-blue message which "was enough to break someone".
And few targets are more deserving of such a direct hit than Britain's tabloid press, one of the few institutions nearly equal in capability to make or break someone's life.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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