From the #TBR shelf: #IndiomInsight #BreakALeg
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From the #TBR shelf: #IndiomInsight #BreakALeg
#IdiomInsight
Some say the term #BreakALeg originated during Elizabethan times when, instead of applause, the audience would bang their chairs on the ground — and if they liked it enough, the leg of the chair would break.
Book 7 in the Potting Shed mysteries is set in an outdoor production of Shakespeare‘s A Midsummer Night‘s Dream & there‘s more than a broken leg as Pru, garden designer & detective must solve the murder of one of the actors.
pick#IdiomInsight Day 10: You will not literally #BreakALeg even if you on this patchwork bike. The entire story is uplifting, irreverent, and filled with energy. The Afterword written by both the author and the illustrator is also illuminating as it speaks of their influences, their background, and the visual codes embedded in the narrative. My full review of this joyful book from Australia: https://wp.me/pDlzr-lDS
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#BreakALeg
This saying is most associated with live theater. So I thought a book about Broadway was most appropriate.
When I looked up the origin of the phrase #BreakALeg there was a lot of uncertainty, but the most prevalent idea was that it started as a pun based on a Yiddish phrase for luck and blessings that sounds similar to a German phrase about breaking bones which fell into popular use because of evil eye type superstitions making people wary of just using the Yiddish. #IdiomInsight
