break into | Idiomator

Meaning: (transitive,idiomatic)To enterillegallyor byforce, especially in order to commit acrime.Somebodybroke intohis car and stole his tools and CDs.Hackersbroke intothe bank's computer system and stole customer data.; (transitive,idiomatic)To open or begin to use.I finallybroke intothe second package of cookies.; (transitive,idiomatic)To successfully enter a profession or business.He hopes tobreak intoshow business.; (transitive)To begin suddenly.The horsebroke intoa gallop as they neared the barn.I justbroke intotears while talking to my mom.Shebroke intoa smile, wrenching herself away from our head physician.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXIII”, inIn Memoriam, London:Edward Moxon,[…],→OCLC,page39:Now, sometimes in my sorrow shut,⁠Orbreaking intosong by fits;⁠Alone, alone, to where he sits,The Shadow cloak’d from head to footWho keeps the keys of all the creeds,⁠I wander, often falling lame,[…]1943November –1944February (date written; published1945August 17),George Orwell[pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair],Animal Farm[…], London:Secker & Warburg, publishedMay 1962,→OCLC:Then, as usual, the sheepbroke into"Four legs good, two legs bad!" and the momentary awkwardness was smoothed over.2010,Julie Kagawa,The Iron King,Don Mills:Harlequin Teen,→ISBN,page237:That struck me as hilarious, and Ibroke intohysterical giggles. And once I began, I couldn’t stop. I laughed until I was gasping for breath, tears streaming down my face.

Examples:

EN: I believe she wants to break into show business.
ES: Creo que quiere actuar en el teatro de variedades.
EN: I break into other people's flats, you into other people's marriages.
ES: Yo desvencijo apartamentos, y Ud. matrimonios.
EN: I'm going to break into Buck's place and get my pliers.
ES: Voy a irrumpir en el garito de Buck y coger mis alicates.
EN: You see, I was afraid that you were going to break into a hymn.
ES: Tuve miedo de que entonaras un cántico.
EN: I'm afraid Guy will break into the middle of your speeches just the same.
ES: De todos modos, me temo que Guy irrumpirá en medio de tus discursos.
EN: Sorry to break into your home in this way.
ES: Siento mucho irrumpir en su casa de esta manera.
EN: And tonight, he comes in drunk, tries to break into her room and she shoots him. The way any virtuous woman with a beast like that.
ES: Esta noche quiso entrar en su cuarto borracho y le pegó un tiro para defenderse...
EN: Now if every time anybody happens to need a bottle of medicine... they can break into a drugstore and take it... well, then, of course, my property isn't safe, is it, nor is any other merchant's. I think these two boys ought to be punished.
ES: Si siempre que alguien necesite un frasco de medicina puede entrar a robarlo en una farmacia, entonces, mi negocio no está a salvo ni el de cualquier otro comerciante.
EN: Ouran tried to break into her room - Miss Thomas's room.
ES: Ouran intentó entrar en la habitación. En la de la Srta. Thomas.
EN: Per the instructions you have just received, at exactly 11:00 tomorrow night you will break into the bank and replace the bills now deposited in the bank with the counterfeit bills so that the bank itself will distribute the counterfeit money.
ES: Por instrucciones que acaban de recibir, exactamente a las 11 de mañana por la noche se introducirán en el banco y sustituirán los billetes del banco por las falsificaciones para que así el mismo banco distribuya dinero falso.
EN: How dare you break into my house!
ES: ¿Cómo te atreves a venir aquí?
EN: Only you were a darn fool to go break into that house.
ES: Aunque fuiste un estúpido por irrumpir en esa casa.
EN: The cash register is very easy to break into. What's most wonderful is the pianola.
ES: La caja, metes la mano y coges la pasta.
EN: The director recalled that it is the first skin break into the zoo.
ES: - ¿Era una piel valiosa? - Mucho. Un regalo de mi difunto marido.
EN: May has come the trees break into leaf two parents each fighting... eh harmonizing
ES: ¡Mayo ha llegado! ¡Los árboles revientan! Los padres de ambos... dos luchas... eh armonía en una lucha a dos... 50 a 50...

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