break the cycle

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break the cycle (third-person singular simple present breaks the cycle, present participle breaking the cycle, simple past broke the cycle, past participle broken the cycle)

  1. (idiomatic) To act so as to end a repeating pattern of harmful or otherwise negative behavior.

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