hi and welcome to Harry's world of words and phrases and English in a minute
let's look at an idiom break a leg it's quite common but a
little difficult for people to understand and somewhat to explain but
it has its history back in the English traditions of the theatre and even goes
back as far as she experienced times perversely people didn't like to wish a
fellow actor good luck because they thought it would invoke or bring about
bad luck so they decided to come up with a phrase that would be the opposite so
they invented the phrase break your legs or when somebody's about to go on for
their big audition or their first night they would typically say to each other
break a leg so today when your friend is going to do his driving test or he's
going for a job interview you might just say break a leg so it really is wishing
them good luck okay so that's all for today and remember subscribe to our
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