nice break
nice break
A very fortunate or beneficial chance or happenstance. We were stuck in our investigation, but we got a nice break when an anonymous source tipped us off to a possible culprit. "Hmph, nice break," grumbled Mike, after his little sister got a hole-in-one on the very first hole of the course.
See also: break, nice
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- lucky break
- pot luck
- take pot luck
- take potluck
- in luck
- (one's) number comes up
- your/somebody's number comes up
- luck out of
- luck out of (something)
- tip the scales at something