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break the spell

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break the spell 
1. to put an end to a magic spell. The wizard looked in his magic book to find out how to break the spell.
2. to do something that ends a desirable period of figurative enchantment. At the end of the second movement, some idiot broke the spell by applauding.
See also: break, spell


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If the B's don't break the spell this coming spring, it will mark one full decade since they've won a playoff series (they beat Carolina in six games in the first round in 1999), and approaching 40 years - 37, to be exact - since the franchise's last Stanley Cup (1972).
The Left must -- and this is key -- break the spell the extreme Left holds over it.
To his credit, he seldom resorts to exposition-heavy exchanges that would break the spell of fiction.
 
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