_Break nasty_ = "jump salty"

[Wilson Gray]

Now in UD, with a surprising-reasonable set of definitions, from 2005.

Otherwise, as far as the Web is concerned, _break nasty_ occurs only
in the environment immediately before "... habits."

-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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