• "Break a leg" is an English language idiom used in the theatre or other performing arts to wish a performer "good luck". An ironic or non-literal saying...
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    bowl with their right-arm and a wrist spin action. The leg spinner's normal delivery is a leg break, which spins from right to left (from the bowler's perspective)...
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  • Break a leg is a well-known idiom in theatre which means "good luck". It may also refer to: Break a Leg (web series), an American comedy web series "Break...
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  • Look up break or breaks in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Break or Breaks or The Break may refer to: Recess (break), time in which a group of people...
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  • expression "break a leg" replaces the phrase "good luck". The exact origin of this expression is unknown, but some of the most popular theories are the Leg Line...
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  • spin the ball. A right-handed wrist spinner is known as a leg spinner and his or her mode of bowling is known as leg break. A leg break will move from...
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  • Break a Leg is an American independently-created comedy web series. The show is filmed in the handheld, one-camera style associated with mockumentaries...
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    NrityaShakti for dance production, has produced two webshows on YouTube named Break A Leg Season 1 and 2. She is the younger sister of the singer Neeti Mohan and...
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  • figurative. For example, break a leg is an expression commonly said to wish a person good luck just prior to their giving a performance or presentation...
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  • Equivalent to the English actor's idiom "break a leg", the expression reflects a theatrical superstition in which wishing a person "good luck" is considered bad...
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    he directed Ira Levin's play Break a Leg on Broadway. Despite the previous year's success of Levin's Deathtrap, Break a Leg closed after one performance...
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  • artist success in an imminent performance. It is similar to "break a leg" and reflects a superstition that wishing someone "good luck" is in fact bad...
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    believed to bring luck. "Break a leg" is a typical English idiom used in the context of theatre or other performing arts to wish a performer "good luck"...
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  • the role, injured her leg in a soccer game and had to withdraw from the film. Two actresses were flown to Prague, and after a week's auditions Berridge...
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  • Kingswood Alumni Daisy Head in @BBCOne #TheLottery on Tuesday at 9pm. Break a Leg Daisy!". Retrieved 20 February 2020 – via Twitter. "Kingswood In Focus...
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  • inside a theatre The substitutions "The Scottish Play" and "Break a leg" are used instead. Shoes on a table Placing a hat on a bed Three on a match: 292 ...
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  • [@therealKripke] (10 October 2017). "Day One! #HouseWithAClockInItsWalls break a leg @eliroth, Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Owen Vacarro, @Kyle_MacLachlan...
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  • Marshall also had a secondary role in the Steve Martin-Bonnie Hunt remake of Cheaper by the Dozen and a cameo appearance in Break a Leg, which starred her...
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  • play Hitler but due to an unfortunate accident, he breaks his leg (ironic as the term 'break a leg' is used to mean 'good luck' in the theater world)...
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    Off spin (redirect from Off break)
    caught from an off break, but it does mean there is a chance of leg before wicket, assuming the ball has not turned enough to miss the leg stump. However...
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    right Hands on your hips and do the mess around, Break a leg until you're near the ground [break a leg is a hobbling step] Now that's the old black bottom...
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  • theatre, putting shoes on a dressing room table is considered by some to bring the risk of a bad performance, just as "Break a leg!" is considered good luck...
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  • 2022. "S Dariom i "Break a Leg" u Düsseldorf". eurosong.hr (in Croatian). 6 March 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2022. ""Break a Leg" s novim tekstom; stiže...
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    Austin, Texas, since 1992. The race weekend also features a half marathon and a 5K run with a two-day expo taking place on Friday and Saturday. The 32nd...
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  • the Women's Premier League. She is an all-rounder, who is a right-handed batter and a leg break bowler. Born in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, she found interest...
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  • wish "Break a leg", whereupon Animal indulged him by trying to break Nabors's leg. Another gag would occasionally occur when the band plays a slow song:...
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    for Best Play Break a Leg: A Comedy in Two Acts (1979) Cantorial (1982) Footsteps (2003) Drat! The Cat! (1965) – lyricist and bookwriter A Kiss Before Dying...
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  • html>. Spring Break-a-Leg. The Hangar Theatre, 2011. Web. 1 Mar. 2013.<http://www.hangartheatre.org/spring-break-a-leg.html>. Artists-in-the-Schools...
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  • phrase is to say "break a leg" ("You Never Say Good Luck on Opening Night"). Franz leaves to prepare and literally breaks his leg in a fall. Max enlists...
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  • The Last Leg (known during its first series as The Last Leg with Adam Hills and in Australia as Adam Hills: The Last Leg) is a British late-night television...
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