Catch a Break
What it means
Get a piece of luck, usually after a stretch of not getting any.
Where it comes from
The lucky sense of break is often traced to billiards, where the break scatters the balls and nobody controls where they end up. The trail is not clean, and other games have been proposed.
The puzzle it came from
Catch a Break was the answer to the Phrasicle of October 24, 2025. The clue read ____ a ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.
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daily
catch
fire
station
wagon
cottage
cheese
board
game
show
hot
spring
break
down
time
horror
movie
night
owl
nest
Phrasicle: Catch a Break