to break the cycle
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4.2
- phrasal verb
- /breɪk ðə ˈsaɪkəl/
:
romper el ciclo
- And if done right, it will help to break the cycle of poverty as well.
- break the cycle of poverty
- break the cycle of violence
- help break the cycle
This is how you break the cycle of your middle class habits.
- This is how you break the cycle of your middle class habits.
- Like someone has to be the one to break the cycle in your family.
- Again, not easy, but those mindful moments may break the cycle.
- If you're going to break the cycle, then you have to remove the cause of the problem.
- She probably had a similar mother and she was not able to break the cycle.
- And that's why healing is so important, because healing will help break the cycle.
- Today we're talking to Jonathan Bricker, an absolute expert in this field, and he's going to tell you exactly how to break the cycle of self loathing.
- He was kind of the guy that broke the cycle and began the treatments that were that got me out of pain enough to then do the rehab.
- And as soon as you realize that, you can break the cycle of reliving and relitigating the things that happened before right now.
- I want you to break the cycle of poor, rich, poor, rich, poor, rich, which is what most agents do because they're inconsistent with their disciplines.
- So they're he he broke the cycle for all of them, which is so cool.
Examples
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Jobs and incomes are key to breaking the cycle of poverty.
Blog text (30) -
Do whatever it takes to break the cycle.
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Like someone has to be the one to break the cycle in your family.
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But we can break the cycle.
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We have to break the cycle.
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I need help breaking the cycle of picking the wrong guy.
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The ultimate aim is to break the cycle of poverty, and the schools play a vital role in this regard.
Academic text (1991) -
So how can we break the cycle of procrastination?
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Educating girls and integrating them into the labor force is especially critical to breaking the cycle of poverty.
Academic text (2010) -
To improve your life, you need to break the cycle of negative thinking.
Synonyms
5
4.2
Stop doing something bad you do often, for example smoking
To get out of the same boring routine
Antonyms
How Cyclical
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6.5
15
4.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to put an end to a recurring pattern' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'break' (to stop or interrupt) + 'cycle' (a repeating sequence); the verb acts literally on the noun. This is a common, non-metaphorical verb+noun combination that follows standard English semantics (and similar logic exists in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would likely understand it.
Etymology
Break the cycle creates a clear picture: imagine a wheel or a closed loop, a cycle, that keeps turning and causing the same problems, and you break it so it stops. That's why it means 'to end' a repeating harmful pattern.