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the breaks
Idioms and Phrases
Pieces of luck, turns of events, as in No matter how well he pitches, the team always makes fielding errors—that's the breaks, I guess , or There's not much you can do if the breaks are against you . In the singular and modified forms, this term becomes good or bad or lucky break . In the plural form, only the context determines its favorable or unfavorable meaning. [ Slang ; early 1900s] Also see tough break .Example Sentences
In Hall’s opinion, this majority coalition is the sort of force that can put the breaks on the GOP’s budget plan, especially if advocates are able to effectively communicate how “The ripple effects of Medicaid being cut or Medicaid expansion being repealed will extend way beyond the people who actually are enrolled in the program.”
"It was a weird match with all the breaks and everything, but I wanted to be composed and really focused and I'm glad that I did that," Swiatek said.
Her classical training led her into teaching, but at night she'd accompany opera singers on piano, singing pop standards during the breaks.
Officiating was under particular scrutiny this season, with a widely pervasive feeling that the Kansas City Chiefs, who won every close game in 2024, seemed to get all the breaks from the team in stripes.
What's happened is that a lot of the possibilities for the breaks to be applied have been removed.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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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