BREAK A LEG Meaning in English | Very short English lesson
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hi and welcome to Harry's world of words
and phrases and English in a minute
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let's look at an idiom
break a leg it's quite common but a
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little difficult for people to
understand and somewhat to explain but
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it has its history back in the English
traditions of the theatre and even goes
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back as far as she experienced times
perversely people didn't like to wish a
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fellow actor good luck because they
thought it would invoke or bring about
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bad luck so they decided to come up with
a phrase that would be the opposite so
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they invented the phrase break your legs
or when somebody's about to go on for
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their big audition or their first night
they would typically say to each other
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break a leg so today when your friend is
going to do his driving test or he's
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going for a job interview you might just
say break a leg so it really is wishing
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them good luck okay so that's all for
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