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Make or break.
Circumstances causing total success or total ruin.
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"It was a make or break day," he said of his effort to woo her.
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All they can manage is a series of asinine, faux-profound observations – "Nobody ever mentions the weather can make or break your day" – which makes it, pretty much, an archetypal Noel Gallagher lyric.
You always have choices, and the choices you make will make or break your day.
Even more than our life situations, it's our self-talk that can make or break our day.
Mornings can make or break your day, and that morning, someone took a big shit right in front of Kells' front door.
In Sing Sing, some prisoners forget that officers have the same power to make or break their day, just like the ones upstate.
On the eve of a make-or-break day in parliament when the prime minister, Enrico Letta, is likely to call for a confidence vote in the grand coalition he has headed since April, Berlusconi appeared on Tuesday night to be on a collision course with a breakaway faction of his People of Freedom (PdL) party.
But he added that people should temper expectations: "it's not a make-or-break day".
Hizzoner's sentiments echo the tabloid's coverage of Occupy's make-or-break day.
But the expert who can make or break someone's day with a few words announced yesterday his new career as an online antiques valuer.
There are certain décor items that, while lovely and totally drool-worthy, won't necessarily make or break your big day, yet they could break that budget.
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