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"form": "lucky breaks",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "At 17, she got her lucky break when she appeared on television and became a popular musician overnight."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A stroke of luck; a fortunate event, particularly of the sort that propels one to success, fame, etc."
],
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],
[
"luck",
"luck"
],
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"fortunate",
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"propel",
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"success",
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"(idiomatic) A stroke of luck; a fortunate event, particularly of the sort that propels one to success, fame, etc."
],
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"word": "lucky streak"
}
],
"synonyms": [
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"sense": "by ellipsis",
"word": "break"
}
],
"tags": [
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"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stroke of luck",
"word": "onnenpotku"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "stroke of luck",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "coup de chance"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "stroke of luck",
"tags": [
"familiar",
"masculine"
],
"word": "coup de bol"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "stroke of luck",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "coup de cul"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stroke of luck",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "glücklicher Zufall"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stroke of luck",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Glückstreffer"
}
]
}
],
"word": "lucky break"
}
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"tags": [
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"text": "At 17, she got her lucky break when she appeared on television and became a popular musician overnight."
}
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"A stroke of luck; a fortunate event, particularly of the sort that propels one to success, fame, etc."
],
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"stroke",
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],
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"luck",
"luck"
],
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"fortunate",
"fortunate"
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"event",
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"propel",
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"success",
"success"
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"(idiomatic) A stroke of luck; a fortunate event, particularly of the sort that propels one to success, fame, etc."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "by ellipsis",
"word": "break"
}
],
"translations": [
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stroke of luck",
"word": "onnenpotku"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "stroke of luck",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "coup de chance"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "stroke of luck",
"tags": [
"familiar",
"masculine"
],
"word": "coup de bol"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "stroke of luck",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "coup de cul"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stroke of luck",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "glücklicher Zufall"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stroke of luck",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Glückstreffer"
}
],
"word": "lucky break"
}
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