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Break a leg |
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Break a leg! something that you say to wish someone good luck, especially before they perform in the theatre. 'Tonight's the first night of the play.' 'Is it? Well, break a leg!' (usually an order) |
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It is a wonder that Ace did not break a leg, so fast he was going when he fell; but he didn't, though with four good legs he was unable to wallow from the mire. Why, every day in the trenches we go cheerfully to expose ourselves to worse than that--for a bullet may break a leg, and I am convinced a surgeon would give us more pain in cutting off a thigh than an executioner in cutting off a head. |
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