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Cause to discontinue a habit or practice, as in Mom tried for years to break Betty of biting her nails . The Oxford English Dictionary cites a quotation from W. Wotton's History of Rome (1701): 鈥淗e ... broke them of their warm Baths,鈥 which presumably refers to breaking Romans of their custom of bathing regularly. Today we are more apt to break someone of a bad habit. [Early 1600s]Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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