break into sth
— phrasal verb with break uk/breɪk/us/breɪk/verb broke, broken
to suddenly begin to do something:
He felt so happy that he broke into song (= suddenly began to sing).
She walked quickly, occasionally breaking into a run (= starting to run).
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Starting and beginning
- be in the first flush of idiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- bring
- export
- go ahead
- ground
- initiator
- instate
- introduce
- kick
- kick in
- kick-start
- strike
- touch sth off
- train
- trigger
- wade in
- weave
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