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fag break
noun
A brief cessation of work, activity etc. in order to have a cigarette.
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So, here are some comebacks we came up with on our fag break.
Our time is up and, more pressingly, Daldry needs another fag break.
When Shelley went for a fag break in the parking lot, she switched her phone back on for a few minutes.
Fresh from a fag break, Laurence Fox is supposed to be talking about his role in the new series of Victoria.
He argued that banning Facebook would just shift any "displacement time" onto something else, which I suppose could be doing the crossword or having another fag break.
Necessity dictated that we spent as much time together as we could, and there was no better, more acceptable time to do that than the fag break.
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In shop doorways, people taking fag breaks or sheltering from the drizzle talked about nothing else.
Workers returning from fag breaks rarely challenge strangers who slope in behind them; nor do receptionists much quiz visitors dressed as couriers or engineers.
Anyone who watched The Model Agency documentary on Channel 4 last year may well wonder how she'll find the time to pen the book between fag breaks and cackling with her underlings.
The Rolling Stones are repeat visitors, model Karlie Kloss has been, Suki Waterhouse spent a summer holiday there and Tracey Emin reportedly stays every autumn (and can often be spotted taking fag breaks).
Our latest interview is punctuated by regular fag breaks, Farage looks forward wistfully to a post-referendum PFL ("Proper Farage Lunch," of the strictly liquid variety), and he shudders about the ghastliness of political types ("so dishonest").
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