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get a break
Idioms and Phrases
Obtain a favorable opportunity; get special consideration or treatment. For example, The understudy finally got a break when the star became ill , or The new price is higher, but you are getting a break on service . [c. 1900] Also see give someone a break .Example Sentences
When he does get a break between projects, he spends time at his homes in Lisbon or Ibiza, “doing nothing but reading, cooking and going to the beach.”
Trying to make ends meat as a single mum and working anywhere between two to six jobs at one time, Hardy first stepped into a boxing gym in 2010 as a way to get a break from the daily grind.
That is where the children would go to a health trust facility and the families would get a break.
Homeless people will come to the lobby just to get a break from the heat, while families are taking their kids to the pool during summer break.
The city of Los Angeles will open cooling centers in South L.A., the San Fernando Valley and the Eastside so residents and their pets can get a break from the broiling heat expected across Southern California’s inland and valley areas over the next few days.
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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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