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coffee break

noun

First recorded in 1940–45

The drivers of the van were said to be taking a coffee break while the car was ransacked by a 47-year-old Italian man.

But with a coffee break and lunch etc., they work seven hours.

Its staff of crack accountants can probably roll these things out before their Monday-morning coffee break.

In New York, a coffee break involves waiting for an elevator, going outside, and then waiting on line.

Popova exclaimed emotionally during a coffee break at the Russian Socialist Left Alliance last week.

As I understood the report, they said they left for a coffee break.

That was no good, of course, so at the coffee break I forced myself around the corner to the barber shop.

Do you normally take a coffee break right after you go to work?

Usually after we get our assignments in the morning, we take a coffee break and go to work.

And a fifteen-minute coffee break could turn into a fifteen-hour romp around the town.

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