Broke Phrases

Phrases

• 11:30, Diet Coke break (Coca Cola advertising slogan)
• A bad break
• A cup of coffee (A baseball expression denoting a break from major league baseball)
• A poor relation
• A poor workman blames his tools
• Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
• All hell broke loose
• As poor as a church mouse
• Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day song)
• Boulevard of broken dreams
• Break a butterfly on a wheel
• Break a leg
• Break and enter (Unlawfully enter a locked premises)
• Break bread
• Break camp
• Break cover
• Break even
• Break new ground
• Break out in a cold sweat
• Break out of the ordinary (Nestle's Butterfinger advertising slogan)
• Break ranks
• Break sweat
• Break the back of something
• Break the bank
• Break the habit
• Break the ice
• Break the mould
• Break the news
• Break the sound barrier
• Break through (Cadillac advertising slogan)
• Break up
• Break wind
• Break with tradition
• Break your back
• Break your balls
• Break your heart
• Break your neck
• Broken Arrow (James Stewart movie)
• Broken dreams
• Broken dreams ()
• Broken home
• Broken man
• Broken record
• Dirt poor
• Don't have a bean
• Drum break (A short drum solo in a song, or a form of brake on a vehicle)
• Financially embarrassed
• Flat broke
• Give me a break
• Give me a break! Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar! (Kit Kat chocolate advertising slogan)
• Go for broke
• Have a break, have a Kit Kat (Kit Kat chocolate advertising slogan)
• Have you had your break today? (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Honest broker
• I Pity The Poor Immigrant (Bob Dylan song)
• If it ain't broke don't fix it
• It won't break the bank
• Jack fell down and broke his crown (line from nursery rhyme)
• Lucky break
• Make a break for it
• Make a clean break
• Mendoza line (A baseball expression denoting a line marking a very poor performance)
• Negative equity
• Never give a sucker an even break (A catchphrase from W C Fields)
• No bottles to break - just hearts (Arpege Perfume advertising slogan)
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• One law for the rich and another for the poor
• Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Neil Young song)
• Piss poor
• Point Break (Keanu Reeves movie)
• Poor but honest
• Poor little rich girl
• Poor thing but mine own
• Rest up (take a break from one's arduous efforts)
• Rich man poor man beggerman thief
• Rubber chicken (poor quality or overcooked chicken)
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• Rules are made to be broken
• Step on a crack, break your mother's back
• Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
• Stony broke
• The Poor Bloody Infantry (term used to describe the British infantry in WWI)
• The last straw that broke the camel's back
• The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
• You can break a brolly but you can't k-nacker a Knirps (Knirps advertising slogan)
• You deserve a break today (McDonald's advertising slogan)