Meaning

1 senses
  1. (idiomatic)A stroke of luck; a fortunate event, particularly of the sort that propels one to success, fame, etc.

    At 17, she got her lucky break when she appeared on television and became a popular musician overnight.

    glücklicher Zufall, Glückstreffer

Examples

6 sentences
  1. This is what they call a lucky break.

    deDas ist das, was man einen glücklichen Zufall nennt. — Esperantostern

  2. I got a lucky break.

  3. Tom got a lucky break.

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  4. How lucky! There's nothing broken.

    ruЗдорово! Ничего не сломалось. — sharptoothed

    deWelch ein Glück! Es ist nichts zerbrochen. — al_ex_an_der

  5. We caught a lucky break.

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Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
stroke of luck:

Forms

plural: lucky breaks
Singularlucky break
Plurallucky breaks

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
by ellipsis:breakA2

Antonyms

1 antonyms
bad break

Word family

1 related words

See also

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