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Phrase(s): break for something
1. to stop working for something else, such as lunch, coffee, etc. • We should break now for lunch. • I want to break for coffee. 2. to run suddenly toward something; to increase dramatically one’s speed while running. • At the last moment, the deer broke for the woods. • The deer broke for cover at the sound of our approach.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs