TO BREAK INTO

Definition: TO BREAK INTO

TO BREAK INTO

1. To enter by breaking; as, to break into a house.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO BREAK INTO

A burglar tried to break into my friend's house, fell through a skylight, and cut his leg on a knife on the kitchen counter. (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur)

You know, at one time, I used to break into pet shops to liberate the canaries. (Harold and Maude; writing credit: Colin Higgins)

Do you know how hard it is trying to break into show business? (Girls on Top; writing credit: Dawn French; Jennifer Saunders)

Well, how about how hard it was to break into industry? (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks)

I am only attempting to break into the safe. (Thank You, Mr. Moto; writing credit: Wyllis Cooper; Norman Foster)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• 24-Carat Commercials for Kids: Everything Kids Need to Know to Break into Commercials (Hollywood 101) (reference)

• Wake Me When It's Funny: How to Break into Show Business and Stay There (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Model's Boot Camp: How To Break Into Modeling and TV Commericals The Right Way (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

He that hath authority to seize my person in the street, may be opposed as a thief and a robber, if he endeavours to break into my house to execute a writ, notwithstanding that I know he has such a warrant, and such a legal authority, as will impower him to arrest me abroad. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They watched Pa, waiting for him to break into fury.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

This could be the best opportunity for American telecom suppliers trying to break into a somewhat closed market. (references)

Economic History

Cape Verde

It is advisable that a company attempting to break into the market retain a person resident in Cape Verde who should be fluent in Portuguese. (references)

Australia

Despite deregulation of the airline industry twelve years ago, attempts by others to break into the market have met with failure or limited success. (references)

Barbados

U.S. companies trying to break into the market would be best advised to find a local agent/distributor and to make a long-term commitment to exporting to the region. (references)

Travel

Spain

There is no substitute for face-to-face meetings with Spanish business representatives to break into this market. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Chinese 

碎 (cliff, fragmentary, to break down, to break into pieces). (various references)

Hungarian

vmire fakad, hirtelen kezd vmibe, betör vhova. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'す (to damage, to devastate, to invade, to lay waste), �'らす (to damage, to devastate, to invade, to lay waste), �'らし回る (to rampage), 踏み込む (to raid, to step into), 討ち入る (to raid), 入る (to accommodate, to come in, to contain, to enroll, to enter, to flow into, to get in, to go in, to have, to hold, to join, to set, to set in). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うちいる (to raid), ふみ�"む (to raid, to step into), あらす (to damage, to devastate, to invade, to lay waste), あらしまわる (to rampage), はいる (banishment, exile, to accommodate, to contain, to enroll, to enter, to have, to hold, to join). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: abortion, baritone, betatron, brookite, knottier, obtainer, reobtain, rotation, taborine.

-4 letters: abettor, arnotto, baronet, battier, beatnik, biotron, biretta, bittern, bornite, brookie, eobiont, intreat, iterant, keratin, knitter, knotter, nattier, niobate, nitrate, oration, rattoon, reboant, reitbok, taboret, taborin, tertian, tortoni, trinket, tritone.

-5 letters: aroint, atoner, attire, attorn, baiter, banker, banter, barite, batten, batter, battik, beknot, betook.

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