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English idiom used in theatre to wish a performer "good luck"

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"Break a leg" is an English-language idiom used in the context of theatre or other performing arts to wish a performer "good luck". An ironic or non-literal saying of uncertain origin, "break a leg" is commonly said to actors and musicians before they go on stage to perform or before an audition. Though a similar and potentially related term seems to have first existed in German without theatrical associations, the English theatre expression with its luck-based meaning is first attributed in the 1930s or possibly 1920s.

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