[Ads-l] "them's the breaks"

[Bill Mullins]

>
> I am probably just missing something, but it seems to me that the OED is
> omitting an expression larger than "them's the breaks."  I don't see in any of
> the OED senses that the word "break" can refer to a stroke of fortune that
> could be bad.  Think of the expression "I got a bad break."
>
> Fred

Or, a quote which was one sentence away from making it into the Yale Book of Quotes:
"For the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break."
Which was immediately followed by the more well known: "Yet today I consider myself
the luckiest man on the face of the earth." (Lou Gehrig, 1939).

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