leg-break

Definitions

Examples

• This is the Mexico that U.S. college students would be wise to steer clear of on spring break.

• I was already over forty, had hardly a nickel in my pocket and this was the biggest break in my life.

• I did a ten minute scene in his class: the guy who had gangrene in his leg in The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

• Imagine waking up to find a guy who looks like a tech startup employee eating your charred crispy leg.

• This sultry ballad about break-ups and make-ups in the City of Angels is haunting stuff.

• Were you ever arrested, having in your custody another man's cash, and would rather go to gaol, than break it?

• If old Piegan Smith hadn't been sampling the contents of that keg so industriously he would never have made a break.

• His face flushed with annoyance, and taking off his soft hat he began to beat it impatiently against his leg as he walked.

• General Houston had attacked them with three hundred of our people, but had not been able to break their ranks.

• For good or ill, the torrent of rebellion was suffered to break loose, and it soon engulfed a continent.