lucky break

collocation in English

meaningsofluckyandbreak

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withbreak.
lucky
adjective
uk
/ˈlʌk.i/us
/ˈlʌk.i/
having good things happen to you ...
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break
noun
uk
/breɪk/us
/breɪk/
an ...
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(Definition ofluckyandbreakfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflucky break

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But for most artists who have not been afforded such aluckybreak, good reviews from the right publications are of the utmost importance.
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One knows that most actors spend most of their time resting, but he was studying for his nextluckybreak.
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I had thought that his very unlucky break might be myluckybreak!
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Sometimes you have aluckybreaklike that, but you cannot get to that position without long, patient and probably very expensive work on the development of the machine.
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Sometimes one can have aluckybreak.
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Hisluckybreakcame in 1991 when a film he was working with stopped its production.
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This was aluckybreak, as it meant that a demodulator would not be needed to generate images from this tape.
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The heroine gets aluckybreakin cinema and becomes a household name.
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He realized however that it was up to him alone to create his ownluckybreak.
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Pody claimed, this was my secondluckybreakthe first being born healthy.
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This was actually aluckybreak.
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On a retest of this subset, the unskilled will be unlikely to repeat theirluckybreak, while the skilled will have a second chance to have bad luck.
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The purpose of this exploration remains undetermined, but one of the humans speculate that it may have been aluckybreakfor mankind that the ship never returned home.
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