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Che strano modo di augurare buona fortuna, è quasi meglio "sadomizza il cetaceo"...
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Break a Leg
This phrase dates back to the 1920's and is superstition against wishing an actor good luck. Many people think the origin comes from when in 1865 John Wilkes Booth, who was an actor, broke his leg while leaping to kill President Linoln during a play at the Ford's Theatre. But, this does not really seem like it is related to good luck. Some stage actors think it has to do with bending your knee when you bow, like at the end of a successful play.
A site visitor wrote the following reguarding this idiom:
In a short view of your idiom site came up with a couple of errors at once. Break a leg---Booth didn't jump to kill Lincoln, Booth, having shot Lincoln, jumped to the stage to escape and in doing so broke his
leg.
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