big break

They used to talk to each other about not getting the big break.

His big break came much earlier than he could have expected.

They didn't get their first big break until early summer 2011.

I thought it was going to be my big break.

Her big break, however, was at age 13 in a television commercial.

A team took her, I thought, and knew it was a big break for us.

She was a working class woman on her own, looking for that big break.

This would become the big break of his early career.

The first big break in the case came very early on: July 1989, the following month.

According to him, the series has been his biggest break in the industry.

But the big break came in recent days, the authorities say.

The Republican leadership knows the party got one big break this week.

"But this movie thing is going to be my big break."

Because the chance to get this job was a big break for me, a real career opportunity.

But the big break in the weather had never come.

It was supposed to be my big break, do you remember?

His first big break came a year later, on the "Tonight" show.

Perhaps this was the big break he had been hoping for.

He later came to see this as his "big break".

"I got the job and that was my first big break in theater."

Landing this project was a very big break for us.

But for Williams, then 27, it was her big break.

Paul Williams thought this movie would be his big break, but after working on the film for 3 months, he had just a small part.

He had been a singer, waiting for the big break.

Five years after leaving fashion school, he's still waiting for his big break to come along.