Something must have broken their nerve, though only the Devil who made them knows what.

It reached the German position, and broke its occupants' nerve.

From an almost impossible position, he had fired a random shot to break his foeman's nerve.

Do you know, he just about broke Schultz's nerve as a poker player.

Sight of a dead man back in circulation was enough to break the fellow's nerve.

You're trying to break my nerve and get my goat.

The incident hadn't broken his nerve, but he was certainly more cautious now.

Someone is going to have to take him out before he breaks our nerve, and I suppose it will have to be me.

Whatever you said to him at the office yesterday broke his nerve.

It was purposely using the effect it had on me to break my nerve.