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get a break



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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 .
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Ohtani said he does “want to play as much as possible” but “if the team feels like I should get a break, I’ll follow that.”

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“So the moral of the story is we are, thankfully, going to get a break from all this for the end of this week, but unfortunately, it’s going to be short-lived,” Kittell said of dangerous fire weather.

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The Lions still have 16 players on Injured Reserve and it was like they were playing for that number one seed, so they could get a break for some of their team-mates to come back and join them.

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But sole proprietors have to pay both parts of the self-employment tax on all income, whereas S corps can get a break here.

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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.”

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