US. : to have a some good luck I just can't seem to catch a break. If we can catch a break with the goalkeeping, we might just win the championship.
What do you do when you can't take a break?
Here are some ideas to help motivate you and get you started on the break time habit, whether you have five minutes or a few hours.
- Unplug and undo. ...
- Quiet the monkey. ...
- Look for shades of gray. ...
- Take a mini vacation. ...
- Learn something new. ...
- Just be. ...
- Find something to laugh about. ...
- Create something.
Can't catch a break origin?
This goes back to the fact that a "break" was an interruption in a street performer's act used to collect money from the crowd. The term was taken up by the underworld where it came to mean the money collected for a felon on release from prison - he was given a break.
