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Break a Leg
There's a tradition of same break a leg to in theatrical and comedy circles which means good luck have a good gig basically break a leg do you know where it comes from. A leg is part of the above a theatre stage you have lots of different wooden beams that come up and downYeah so basically just break a leg means to bring the house down oh i see so that's what that'sWhat that's so if so if you get if you do really well on stage uh it's like you destroy the place yeahEverybody's you know the taking the roof off the place with such noise and applause and you know so it's not actually one of your legs no you don't actually break a
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