getting a break

ADJECTIVE

lucky

Synonyms

STRONGEST

fortuitous happy hot successful

WEAK

advantageous adventitious all systems go auspicious beneficial benign blessed charmed coming up roses everything going favored felicitous golden hit it big holding aces hopeful in the groove into something on a roll on a streak promising propitious prosperous providential serendipitous striking it rich timely well

Antonyms

STRONGEST

unlucky

WEAK

bad inopportune unfortunate unpropitious unsuccessful

Example Sentences

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The Eagles could do with getting a break, as in a mid-season break, but they just need a bit of luck in front of goal too and they will be back to winning ways.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

When I told him he was getting a break this time, he responded with shock.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2025

That’s the Cougars’ last game before getting a break for the holidays.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 16, 2023

With class-conscious affirmative action, “Will there be people in Scarsdale who are annoyed that working-class people are getting a break? Probably,” he said in an interview.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2023

Here’s young Aspinall here, ahead of you, by long chalks, in classics, and getting a break on at tennis that’ll puzzle you to pick up unless you wake up.

From Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)

getting a break

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