Break A Leg And Other Good Wishes

Some performers want to break legs.

Break a leg and other good wishes. Other theories support that break a leg goes much further back perhaps to Elizabethan England where audiences threw money when they enjoyed a performance fruits and vegetables for a. This is how you say good fortune in Italian May God bless you. The term break a leg appears to come from the belief that one ought not to utter the words good luck to an actor.

Good Luck and please stay in touch. Take home the crown. Many of them think that if you wish them good luck the exact opposite will happen.

This idiom comes as a result of the superstitious nature of actors and other performers. Whether you work on multiple teams a tree-planting group or a political sub-committee theres always going to be that one person with whom you mesh the most. The saying really refers to getting ones big break that the performance will be good enough to ensure success in ones career.

Performers believed saying good luck would actually bring bad luck on stage so theyd tell one another to break a leg instead. That is why break a leg became a common way for actors and stagehands to wish each other good luck without having to actually utter the words. In the days of music hall some acts were kept on standby to cover gaps in the bill.

The phrase break a leg comes from the understudy in the theater who hopes the star will break a leg so that they may have hisher chance to go on in their place. It is thought that wishing for something bad to happen will prevent it from happening. Performers had a superstition that saying good luck would actually bring.

Instead you say break a leg. Break a leg. Remember me when youre famous.