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break loose
Idioms and Phrases
Escape from restraint, as in The boat broke loose from its moorings , or He finally broke loose from the school of abstract expressionism . This expression also appears in all hell breaks loose , which indicates a state of fury or chaos, as in When Dad finds out you broke his watch, all hell will break loose , or When the children saw the dead pigeon in the hall, all hell broke loose . [Early 1400s]Example Sentences
Dobbins instead broke loose around the left side for 29 yards and a touchdown.
Malachi Robey breaks loose for first down with 1:48 left.
But when he snapped the ball, three Badger blitzers broke loose.
The junior from JSerra broke loose for touchdown runs of 61 and 34 yards in the first half at Southwestern College.
"All hell was breaking loose," said Ms Kamarck, who was 18 at the time.
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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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