break off
v. phr.— «Tell me the scores, don’t “break me off a little sumpin, sumpin. Give me information, don’t “bust out with the 411.”» —“Huge Fax of the Day” Jim Rome Show Jan. 15, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
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