{"id":475,"date":"2014-10-15T14:54:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T12:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2014-11-06T14:24:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T12:24:25","slug":"idiom-96-break-a-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-96-break-a-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiom 96 – Break a leg!"},"content":{"rendered":"

„I’m feeling a little nervous. Tomorrow I have to give a presentation to a large group of potential investors – and I have to do it all in French!“<\/p>\n

„Don’t worry! You’re well prepared and your French is excellent – you’ll be great. Break a leg! (Hals- und Beinbruch!)<\/em>“<\/p>\n

\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/d6\/Hamlin_theatre.jpg\"This idiom comes from the superstitious (abergl\u00e4ubisch) world of the theatre. Among actors it is considered bad luck to wish someone „good luck“ directly – so by wishing them bad luck (in the form of a broken leg) the opposite will come true. Another example of a theatre superstition is the belief that it is unlucky to say the name of the famous Shakespeare play „McBeth“ inside a theatre. Instead, actors talk about „the Scottish play“ or „the Bard’s play“ (the Bard is a nickname for Shakespeare).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

„I’m feeling a little nervous. Tomorrow I have to give a presentation to a large group of potential investors – and I have to do it all in French!“ „Don’t worry! You’re well prepared and your French is excellent – you’ll be great. Break a leg! (Hals- und Beinbruch!)“ This idiom comes from the superstitious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}