“break one's”

The following 4 entries include the term break one's.

break one's fall

idiom

: to helped make one's fall less forceful

break one's neck

idiom

: to cause one's neck bone to crack or break sometimes used in speech to tell someone he or she could get hurt

break one's promise

idiom

: to not do what one said one would definitely do

break (one's) stride

idiom

: to pause or slow down in one's movement


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