The phrase "expectations to break" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the likelihood or potential for certain expectations to be unmet or violated.
Example: "Given the circumstances, we had to prepare ourselves for the expectations to break."
Alternatives: "expectations to fail" or "expectations to be unmet."
Actual inflation and expectations of it hardly budged.What could cause inflation expectations to break free again, as in the 1970s?
Just when "Downton Abbey" made America fall back in love with British costume dramas, here comes "Great Expectations" to break the spell.
Page D7 Arts PBS OFFERS NEXT ENTRY OF MASTERPIECE CLASSICS Just when "Downton Abbey" made America fall back in love with British costume dramas, here comes "Great Expectations" to break the spell, a two-part BBC production that represents literary adaptation at its most monotonous and wrongheaded, Mike Hale writes.
Yet although Mr Huckabee surpassed expectations, he failed to break out of his niche in the South and among his fellow evangelicals.As for Mr Romney, he did well out West, but failed to win any big or southern states.
To interfere forcibly with someone's experientially-based expectations would be to break their mental association between experience and idea or word: and so the idea or the word would become meaningless and cease to influence action.
We're often held back by people's expectations, but try to break free of this attitude.
This self-styled "naughty period" of Harrison's coincided with the failure of his marriage to Boyd and a fall from grace with music critics following his 1974 "Dark Horse Tour" – a tour on which, similar to Dylan in 1969, Harrison defied public expectation and attempted to break from his Beatle past.
Also a willingness to break expectations and do the unexpected.
Others say behavioural issues are a response to low expectations from teachers... To break the cycle, the best policy lever we have is with the teachers".
His best collection of songs since 1985's Our Favourite Shop, it did respectably, and Weller now feels fortunately positioned where he has an audience sufficient to validate his work as a populist yet not so large as to overburden him with the expectations that provoked him to break up The Jam. "It was a bad time, a low time," Paul Weller thinks back to 1989.
"What's disappointing is we conceded a sloppy goal," said Neil. "Afterwards it takes bottle as the expectations are on us to break them down and we showed great composure".
