break someone

1. In addition to the idioms beginning with break someone, also see under break one.

Example Sentences

“I don’t think this is going to make or break someone’s decision to cruise or not,” said Northcoast Research analyst Drew May.

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Around this time, my dad taught me some self-defense—how to break someone’s grasp on my wrist, how to carry my keys when walking through a parking lot at night so I could stab an attacker.

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Talk about, and this was a big one for me, the fact that our police officers should not break someone's back when they arrest them.

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It was perplexing: Five hundred people had reportedly attended an earlier stop in Fayetteville, Ark. “Is it spring break?” someone asked.

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Carl Chegwin, whose mother also received the text, said he was left upset by the out-of-the-blue message which "was enough to break someone".

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